French masculinities : history, culture and politics / edited by Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe.

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : French manhood in the modern world / Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe -- Elite masculinities in eighteenth-century France / Anne C. Villa -- Men without women? Ideal masculinity and male sociability in the French Revolution, 1789-99 / Sean M. Quinlan -- Making Frenchmen into warriors : martial masculinity in Napoleonic France / Michael J. Hughes -- Neighbourhood boys and men : the changing spaces of masculine identity in France, 1848-71 / Bertrand Taithe -- La civilisation and its discontents : modernity, manhood and the body in the early Third Republic / Christopher E. Forth -- Enemies within : venereal disease and the defence of French masculinity between the wars / Judith Surkis -- Colonial man / Robert Aldrich -- In the name of the father : male masculinities in Vichy France / Miranda Pollard -- Revolt and recuperation : masculinities and the Roman Noir in immediate post-war France / Claire Gorrara -- High-heels or hiking boots? Masculinity, effeminacy and male homosexuals in modern France / Michael Sibalis -- Cinematic stardom, shifting masculinities / Martin O'Shaughnessy -- Virilité in post-war France : intellectual masculinity, Jewishness and sexual potency / Jean-Pierre Boulé -- Threatening virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005 / André Rauch.