Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France

by: Robert A. Nye

Price : 100.00 E£

Genre : History

In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien régime in 1789 to the end of World War I Robert Nye argues that manhood masculinity and male sexuality is like femininity a cultural construct comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice