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

Sexing the Citizen : : Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 / / Judith Surkis.

How did marriage come to be seen as the foundation and guarantee of social stability in Third Republic France? In Sexing the Citizen, Judith Surkis shows how masculine sexuality became central to the making of a republican social order. Marriage, Surkis argues, affirmed the citizen's masculinit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Surkis, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2011
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 8 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Regular Love and Republican Citizenship
  • Part I: Affective Government
  • 1. Moral Education, the Family, and the State
  • 2. Liberal Discipline
  • Part II: The Bachelor's Vice
  • 3. Wasted Youth
  • 4. Life and the Mind
  • Part III: Émile Durkheim and Desirable Regulation
  • 5. The Limits of Desire
  • 6. The Sacralization of Heterosexuality
  • Part IV: Preserving Men
  • 7. Venereal Consciousness and Society
  • 8. Hygienic Citizens
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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