CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH is a Reader in History at the Australian National University. The author of The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004), he is currently completing a book entitled Civilization and its Malcontents: Masculinity and the Body in the Modern West, forthcoming from Palgrave.

BERTRAND TAITHE is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester, UK. The author of Defeated Flesh, (1999), Citizenship and Wars, (2001), and co-author of Benjamin's Arcades, (2006) he is currently working on the history of humanitarianism in the French (ex-) colonial sphere.

Introduction: French Manhood in the Modern World--C.E.Forth & B.Taithe * Elite Masculinities in Eighteenth-Century France--A.C.Villa * Men without Women? Ideal Masculinity and Male Sociability in the French Revolution, 1789-99--S.Quinlan * Making Frenchmen into Warriors: Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France--M.J.Hughes * Neighbourhood Boys and Men: the Changing Spaces of Masculine Identity in France, 1848-1871--B.Taithe * La Civilisation and its Discontents: Modernity, Manhood and the Body in the Early Third Republic--C.E.Forth * Enemies Within: Venerial Disease and the Defence of French Masculinity between the Wars--J.Surkis * Colonial Man--R.Aldrich * In the Name of the Father: Fe/male Masculinites in Vichy France--M.Pollard * Revolt and Recuperation: Masculinities and the Roman Noir in Immediate Post-War France--C.Gorrara * High-Heels or Hiking Boots? Masculinity, Effeminacy and Male Homosexuals in Modern France--M.Sibalis * Cinematic Stardom, Shifting Masculinties--M.O'Shaughnessy * Virilité in Post-War France: Intellectual Masculinity, Jewishness and Sexual Potency--J-P.Boulé * Threatening Virility in the French Banlieues, 1989-2005--A.Rauch * Afterword--R.Nye