French Masculinities

History, Politics and Culture

By: Christopher E. Forth (Editor), Bertrand Taithe (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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French Masculinities makes a valuable contribution to gender studies by presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century to the present. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians as well as specialists in film and literature, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers.

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'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 substantial introductory survey of issues and scholarship by the editors and an Afterword by Robert Nye, doyen of the history of masculinity in France. This welcome work will surely become a point de departfor all future scholarly work in the field.' - Mark Micale, University of Illinois

'A welcome addition to the growing corpus of collected articles on the history of masculinity. What this collection does especially well is provide an overview of the history.' - Morag Martin, Medical History

'In Forth and Taithe's edited collection we now have an excellent survey of the changing notions of what - over the course of three centuries - it meant to be a man in France.' - Angus McLaren, European History Quarterly

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List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: French Manhood in the Modern World	p. 1
Elite Masculinities in Eighteenth-century France	p. 15
Men without Women? Ideal Masculinity and Male Sociability in the French Revolution, 1789-99	p. 31
Making Frenchmen into Warriors: Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France	p. 51
Neighborhood Boys and Men: the Changing Spaces of Masculine Identity in France, 1848-71	p. 67
La Civilisation and its Discontents: Modernity, Manhood and the Body in the Early Third Republic	p. 85
Enemies Within: Venereal Disease and the Defense of French Masculinity between the Wars	p. 103
Colonial Man	p. 123
In the Name of the Father: Male Masculinities in Vichy France	p. 141
Revolt and Recuperation: Masculinities and the Roman Noir in Immediate Post-war France	p. 157
High-heels or Hiking Boots? Masculinity, Effeminacy and Male Homosexuals in Modern France	p. 172
Cinematic Stardom, Shifting Masculinities	p. 190
Virilite in Post-war France: Intellectual Masculinity, Jewishness and Sexual Potency	p. 206
Threatening Virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005	p. 220
Afterword	p. 232
Index	p. 242
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