French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture - Hardcover

Forth, Christopher E.; Taithe, Bertrand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230006612 ISBN 13: 9780230006614

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

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

Review:

'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 départfor 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0230006612
• ISBN 13: 9780230006614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260