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A History of Virility

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In these original essays, an international group of scholars, including Claude Thomasset, Jean-Paul Bertaud, and Andrè Rauch, follow the socio-historical evolution of virility, as opposed to masculinity, to unsettle popular accounts of politics and culture. The book begins with ancient conceptions of the male gender, which persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. Virility foundered during the Enlightenment, and then declined in the nineteenth century. Born out of defensiveness, twentieth-century conceptions of maleness embody a "virility on edge," which, when considered in relation to events, adds fascinating depth to our understanding of history.

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Translator's Note
Preface
1. Greek Virilities, by Maurice Sartre
2. Roman Virilities: Vir, Virilitas, Virtus, by Jean-Paul Thuillier
3. Barbarian and Knight
The Barbarian World: Hybridity and Transformation of Virility, by Bruno Dumézil
The Medieval: Strength and Blood, by Claude Thomasset
4. Absolute Virility in the Early Modern World
Modern Virility: Convictions and Questionings, by Georges Vigarello
Virility and Its "Others": The Representation of Paradoxical Masculinity, by Lawrence D. Kritzman
Examples from Painting, by Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen
5. The Virile Man and the Savage in the Lands of Exploration, by Georges Vigarello
6. Uneasy Virility in the Age of Enlightenment
Common Folks' Virility, by Arlette Farge
Men of Fiction, by Michel Delon
7. The Code of Virility: Inculcation
The Triumph of Virility in the Nineteenth Century, by Alain Corbin
Childhood, or the "Journey Toward Virility," by Ivan Jablonka
8. The Duel and the Defense of Virile Honor, by François Guillet
9. The Necessary Manifestation of Sexual Energy, by Alain Corbin
10. Military Virility, by Jean-Paul Bertaud
11. Virility in the Colonial Context, from the Late Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, by Christelle Taraud
12. The Burden of Virility
The Injunction of Virility, Source of Anguish and Anxiety, by Alain Corbin
Homosexuality and Virility, by Régis Revenin
13. The Great War and the History of Virility, by Stéphane Andoin Rouzeau
14. Origins and Transformations of Male Domination
Impossible Virility, by Jean-Jacques Courtine
Anthropology of Virility: The Fear of Powerlessness, by Claudine Haroche
15. Virilities on Edge, Violent Virilities, by Fabrice Virgili
16. Virility Through the Looking Glass of Women, by Christine Bard
17. "One Is Not Born Virile, One Becomes So," by Arnaud Baubérot
18. Fascist Virility, by Johann Chapoutot
19. Working-Class Virility, by Thierry Pillon
20. Homosexual Transformations, by Florence Tamagne
21. Exhibitions: Virility Stripped Bare, by Bruno Nassim Aboudar
22. Brawn in Civilization: Virile Myth and Muscular Power, by Jean-Jacques Courtine
Notes
Index

About the author

Alain Corbin, geb. 1936, ist Professor für Geschichte an der Universität Paris I (Sorbonne). Er hat zahlreiche Bücher veröffentlicht, vorwiegend zu geschichtlichen Themen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.

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"A History of Virility covers the topic of what virility has been taken to mean since antiquity up until World War I. An innovative contribution to the cultural history of gender, with literature as a central element, the book provides a complete and coherent sense of the trajectory of French notions of virility from and across all time periods. Readers interested in masculinity or gender more broadly will read with great interest." Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh

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