| Contents note |
Translator's Note Preface 1. Greek Virilities, by Maurice Sartre 2. Roman Virilities: Vir, Virilitas, Virtus, by Jean-Paul Thuillier 3. Barbarian and Knight The Barbarian World: Hybridity and Transformation of Virility, by Bruno Dumezil The Medieval: Strength and Blood, by Claude Thomasset 4. Absolute Virility in the Early Modern World Modern Virility: Convictions and Questionings, by Georges Vigarello Virility and Its "Others": The Representation of Paradoxical Masculinity, by Lawrence D. Kritzman Examples from Painting, by Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen 5. The Virile Man and the Savage in the Lands of Exploration, by Georges Vigarello 6. Uneasy Virility in the Age of Enlightenment Common Folks' Virility, by Arlette Farge Men of Fiction, by Michel Delon 7. The Code of Virility: Inculcation The Triumph of Virility in the Nineteenth Century, by Alain Corbin Childhood, or the "Journey Toward Virility," by Ivan Jablonka 8. The Duel and the Defense of Virile Honor, by Francois Guillet 9. The Necessary Manifestation of Sexual Energy, by Alain Corbin 10. Military Virility, by Jean-Paul Bertaud 11. Virility in the Colonial Context, from the Late Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, by Christelle Taraud 12. The Burden of Virility The Injunction of Virility, Source of Anguish and Anxiety, by Alain Corbin Homosexuality and Virility, by Regis Revenin 13. The Great War and the History of Virility, by Stephane Andoin Rouzeau 14. Origins and Transformations of Male Domination Impossible Virility, by Jean-Jacques Courtine Anthropology of Virility: The Fear of Powerlessness, by Claudine Haroche 15. Virilities on Edge, Violent Virilities, by Fabrice Virgili 16. Virility Through the Looking Glass of Women, by Christine Bard 17. "One Is Not Born Virile, One Becomes So," by Arnaud Bauberot 18. Fascist Virility, by Johann Chapoutot 19. Working-Class Virility, by Thierry Pillon 20. Homosexual Transformations, by Florence Tamagne 21. Exhibitions: Virility Stripped Bare, by Bruno Nassim Aboudar 22. Brawn in Civilization: Virile Myth and Muscular Power, by Jean-Jacques Courtine Notes Index |
