French Masculinities History, Politics and Culture

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.

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

ROBERT ALDRICH Professor of European History, the University of Sydney, Australia JEAN-PIERRE BOULÉ Professor of Contemporary French Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK MICHAEL J. HUGHES Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Iona College, USA CLAIRE GORRARA Reader in French Studies, the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK ROBERT A. NYE Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Oregon State University, USA MARTIN O'SHAUGHNESSY Reader in Film, Nottingham Trent University, UK MIRANDA POLLARD Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, the University of Georgia, Athens, USA SEAN QUINLAN Assistant Professor of History, the University of Idaho, USA ANDRÉ RAUCH Professor of History, the Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, France MICHAEL SIBALIS Associate Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada JUDITH SURKIS Assistant Professor of History and of History and Literature, Harvard University, USA ANNE C. VILA Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA