French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture - Rilegato

Forth, Christopher E.; Taithe, Bertrand

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ISBN 10: 0230006612 ISBN 13: 9780230006614

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Riassunto

French Masculinities makes a valuable contribution to gender studies by presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of howvirilité 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 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

L'autore:

CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH is a Reader in History at the Australian National University. The author ofThe Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004), he is currently completing a book entitledCivilization and its Malcontents: Masculinity and the Body in the Modern West, forthcoming from Palgrave.

BERTRAND TAITHE is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester, UK. The author ofDefeated Flesh, (1999), Citizenship and Wars, (2001), and co-author ofBenjamin's Arcades, (2006) he is currently working on the history of humanitarianism in the French (ex-) colonial sphere.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0230006612
• ISBN 13: 9780230006614
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 249