Gender studies have become an area of great interest in many disciplines. Here, Nye examines the evolving definitions of masculinity in France since the eighteenth century. Specifically, Nye looks at how the aristocratic ethos of male honor, rooted in a society of landlords, hunters, and warriors, adapted to a society motivated by utilitarian values, town life, and rational law. He focuses on the cultural practices and mentality of middle and upper class males and the appeal of their codes to men throughout French society.
Author of Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France (1984)
Gender studies have become an area of great interest in many disciplines. Here, Nye examines the evolving definitions of masculinity in France since the eighteenth century. Specifically, Nye looks at how the aristocratic ethos of male honor, rooted in a society of landlords, hunters, and warriors, adapted to a society motivated by utilitarian values, town life, and rational law. He focuses on the cultural practices and mentality of middle and upper class males and the appeal of their codes to men throughout French society.
Author of Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France (1984)
Author of Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France (1984)
"Robert Nye...has taken up the daunting challenges of writing about
masculinity through a courageously eclectic approach. Few
theoretical stones remain unturned...[T]he chronological sweep is
no less impressive, from the Old Regime to about
1920....[F]requently fascinating."--Journal of Modern History
"Robert Nye has written a provocative book. Indeed, if you are
interested in understanding the cultural construction of
masculinity, this is a book that could change your life."--Journal
of the History of Medicine
"The material Nye presents is fascinating, and often
amusing...Argued with impressive scholarship, exhaustive mastery of
the secondary literature, painstaking examination of method and
theory, and careful archival selection."--Times Literary
Supplement
"Nye's book...constitutes a significant contribution to the study
of masculinity in the 19th century. It reminds us how complex the
study of sexuality and masculinity can be, as they remain
inextricably tied to virtually every area of human
experience."--Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter
"Nye's work is a fascinating study based on solid archival research
and a thorough grasp of the literature...This provocative and often
amusing book is a valuable addition to the growing field of male
gender history."--Journal of Social History
"His is the first account to apply a consistently gendered analysis
to duelling in recent French history...Nye has provided us with two
invaluable studies about medical discourse and about
duelling."--French History
"Thoughtfully written, with enough nods to social and
psychoanalytic theories to illuminate rather than encumber his
subjects, this book is required reading for all historians of
nineteenth-century France."--ISIS
"(Nye) demonstrates better than anyone else has why and how
nineteenth-century masculinity was problematized and, in revealing
the social and cultural preoccupations which went into the
construction of perverts, makes a major contribution to the history
of sexuality."--Canadian Journal of History
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