French Masculinities History, Politics and Culture [Hardcover]

This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilit? has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers.List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: French Manhood in the Modern World; C.E.Forth & B.Taithe Elite Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century France; A.C.Villa Men without Women? Ideal Masculinity and Male Sociability in the French Revolution, 1789-99; S.Quinlan Making Frenchmen into Warriors: Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France; M.J.Hughes Neighbourhood Boys and Men: the Changing Spaces of Masculine Identity in France, 1848-1871; B.Taithe La Civilisation and its Discontents: Modernity, Manhood and the Body in the Early Third Republic; C.E.Forth Enemies Within: Venerial Disease and the Defence of French Masculinity between the Wars; J.Surkis Colonial Man; R.Aldrich In the Name of the Father: Fe/male Masculinites in Vichy France; M.Pollard Revolt and Recuperation: Masculinities and the Roman Noir in Immediate Post-War France; C.Gorrara High-Heels or Hiking Boots? Masculinity, Effeminacy and Male Homosexuals in Modern France; M.Sibalis Cinematic Stardom, Shifting Masculinties; M.O'Shaughnessy Virilit? in Post-War France: Intellectual Masculinity, Jewishness and Sexual Potency; J-P.Boul? Threatening Virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005; A.Rauch Afterword; R.Nye Index

'Assembling a distinguished group of European, American, and Australian scholars, French Masculinities applies and advances the latest ideas and approaches to the subject. Forth and Taithe emphasize that the story of French manhood through the ages is especially complicated and distinctive for several reasons, including the nation's ambivalent military heritage and current waning international status. Framing the book brilliantly are a sul“.