Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920

Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920
ISBN-10
0801444640
ISBN-13
9780801444647
Category
History
Pages
277
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Judith Surkis

Description

Surkis shows how masculine sexuality became central to the making of a republican social order. Marriage, Surkis argues, affirmed the citizen's masculinity, while also containing and controlling his desires.

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