Hommes et masculinités de 1789 à nos jours: Contributions à l'histoire du genre et de la sexualité en France

Paradoxically, men are not a new object of study, since the entire history of humanity has until very recently been written in the masculine. But this book is about sexual, and not universal, man, whose masculinity, far from being natural, is socially and historically defined from 1789 to the present day. It is the history of women, the history of sexuality, and more recently the research of gay and lesbian studies, that has permitted the emergence of a history of men and masculinities, a history that is decidedly plural, insofar as masculinity does not come from a vacuum; it is not 'natural,' no more than femininity, both of them variable according to the period and the geographic region, as well as sensitive to differences of class, sexual orientation, race and religion. The result of a conference held in September 2006 in Paris, this collective publication is an original project, largely exploratory. Through diverse and varied communication, young researchers (historians, but also literary and political scholars), explore the problematics of gender and sexuality through precise case studies and specific contexts.