French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture

by Bertrand Taithe and Christopher E. Forth

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230006612
• ISBN13: 9780230006614
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.6"