{"product_id":"a-history-of-virility-9780231168793","title":"A History of Virility","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow has the meaning of manhood changed over time? \u003cem\u003eA History of Virility\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. While the mainstream of virility was challenged during the Enlightenment, its preeminence was restored by social forms of male bonding in the nineteenth century. Pacifist, feminist, and gay rights movements chipped away at models and codes of virility during the next hundred years, leading to the twentieth century's disclosing of a \"virility on edge,\" or virility as an unstable entity dispossessed of any automatic claim to power. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese original essays, written by an international group of scholars including Arlette Farge, Jean-Paul Bertaud, Christelle Taraud, and Fabrice Virgili, add an intriguing sociohistorical dimension to our understanding of the evolution of virility. Unsettling received notions of political and cultural critique, these authors consider painting, sculpture, literature, film, and philosophy to expand our knowledge of fascism, nationalism, liberalism, classicism, and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlain Corbin is a French historian and specialist of nineteenth-century France. His publications include \u003ci\u003eWomen for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eVillage Bells\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Life of an Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean-Jacques Courtine is professor of European studies at the University of Auckland, and professor emeritus at the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris III) and the University of California, Santa Barbara. With Alain Corbin and Georges Vigarello, he edited \u003ci\u003eHistoire du corps\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e). His publications include \u003ci\u003eHistoire du visage \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Face\u003c\/i\u003e) and\u003ci\u003e Déchiffrer le corps. Penser avec Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDeciphering the Body. Thinking with Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorges Vigarello is one of Europe's best-known historians of the body. He has published prolifically on topics ranging from \u003ci\u003eConcepts of Cleanliness\u003c\/i\u003e and the cultural history of sports to \u003ci\u003eThe History of Rape\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe History of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e. He is research director at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeith Cohen has published a number of translations from the French, most notably \"The Laugh of the Medusa\" by Hélène Cixous, reprinted widely throughout the English-speaking world, as well as Cixous's\u003ci\u003e Third Body\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662124847378,"sku":"9780231168793","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f699243e-36b5-46a6-a07a-4f950a5e9501.jpg?v=1733513597","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-virility-9780231168793","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}