Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Greek virilities / Maurice Sartre -- Roman virilities / Jean-Paul Thuillier -- Barbarian and knight. Hybridity and transformation / Bruno Dumezil ; Medieval strength and blood / Claude Thomasset -- Absolute virility in the early modern world. Convictions and questionings / Georges Vigarello ; Paradoxical masculinity / Lawrence D. Kritzman ; Examples from painting / Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen -- The virile man and the savage in the lands of exploration / Georges Vigarello -- Uneasy virility in the age of enlightenment. Common folks' virility / Arlette Farge ; Men of fiction / Michel Delon -- The code of virility : inculcation. The triumph of virility / Alain Corbin ; Childhood, or the "journey toward virility" / Ivan Jablonka -- The duel and the defense of virile honor / Francʹois Guillet ; The necessary manifestation of sexual energy / Alain Corbin ; Military virility / Jean-Paul Bertaud -- Virility in the colonial context : from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century / Christelle Taraud-- The burden of virility. The injunction of virility, source of anguish and anxiety / Alain Corbin ; Homosexuality and virility / Regis Revenin -- The great war and the history of virility / Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau -- Origins and transformations of male domination. Impossible virility / Jean-Jacques Courtine ; Anthropology of virility : the fear of powerlessness / Claudine Haroche -- Virilities on edge, violent virilities / Fabrice Virgili -- Virility through the looking glass of women / Christine Bard -- "One is not born virile, one becomes so" / Arnaud Bauberot -- Fascist virility / Johann Chapoutot -- Working-class virility / Thierry Pillon.
Series:
European perspectives : a series in social thought and cultural criticism
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