Description
Ivan Jablonka's original, rigorously argued, and formally innovative history of masculinity—examining through specific case studies and cross-cultural comparison how the performance of maleness has been constructed, contested, and transformed across centuries and cultures—provides the most intellectually stimulating and the most historically grounded analysis of this subject available in English. Written with the scholarly depth and the literary intelligence that have made Jablonka one of France's most celebrated public intellectuals, this is essential reading for every person engaged with questions of gender, history, and social construction. A genuinely important work.
