French Masculinities by Forth, Christopher E.; Taithe, Bertrand;

History, Politics and Culture

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Product details:

Edition number 2007
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date of Publication 11 July 2007
Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

ISBN 9780230006614
Binding Hardback
No. of pages249 pages
Size 216x140 mm
Weight 485 g
Language English
Illustrations XI, 249 p.

Categories

Natural sciences in general, history of science, philosophy of science Psychotherapy, clinical psychology History in general, methods The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age Modernism, postmodernism Cultural history History of Europe Further readings in History Natural sciences Gender studies Psychology theory Applied psychology Natural sciences in general, history of science, philosophy of science (charity campaign) Psychotherapy, clinical psychology (charity campaign) History in general, methods (charity campaign) The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign) Modernism, postmodernism (charity campaign) Cultural history (charity campaign) History of Europe (charity campaign) Further readings in History (charity campaign) Natural sciences (charity campaign) Gender studies (charity campaign) Psychology theory (charity campaign) Applied psychology (charity campaign)

Long description:

This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilité 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.

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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 Virilité in Post-War France: Intellectual Masculinity, Jewishness and Sexual Potency; J-P.Boulé Threatening Virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005; A.Rauch Afterword; R.Nye Index