Author: Nye, Robert A.
Title: Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xii, 316 pp. Some light page-edge soil, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Sex, Society, & Identity; Honor & Male Identity in the Old Regime; The Roots of Bourgeois Honorability; Sex Difference & the "Separate Spheres"; Population, Degeneration, & Reproduction; Male Sexual Identity & the "Perversions" in the Fin de Siècle; Bourgeois Sociability & the Point d'Honneur: 1800.1860; The Culture of the Sword: Manliness & Fencing int he Third Republic; Honor & the Duel in the Third Republic, 1860-1914: Dueling & the Law; How Many Duels? The Journalistic Duel; The Political Duel; The "Serious" Duel; The "Futile" Duel; Conclusion: Courage.

Keywords: Psychology of Masculinity, France French Male, Sexual Identity, Honor Codes Men, Manliness Fencing, Duel Duels Dueling, Swordfighting, Social Sociology, History Historical