{"product_id":"9780472050581-manning-the-margins","title":"Manning the Margins","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMasculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book-length study of writing, men, and masculinity in seventeenth-century France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManning the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e is provocative, timely, and very original and makes a significant contribution to a variety of fields, including French literary studies, early modern history of ideas, women's and gender studies, and masculinity studies. There is no other work that explores these questions in such depth and is so wide-ranging in its implications for a reevaluation of the period as a whole. Seifert's work is groundbreaking.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManning the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e innovatively synthesizes gender studies and early modern French texts, challenging absolutist assumptions of hierarchy and harmony.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Todd Reeser, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a critical and most significant contribution to masculinity studies both because of its thorough review and synthesis of primary and secondary sources on the subject, as well as the critical and theoretical frames, and because of the original and important direction Seifert takes in his analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past three decades, a rich body of scholarship has uncovered the crucial roles women played in seventeenth-century France, a period often reduced to \"classical\" male authors and \"absolutist\" kings. But the clearer perspective we now have of women has exposed the need to take a fresh look at men and masculinity. Through his reading of a wide range of canonical and minor texts, Lewis C. Seifert charts a course toward a more complex understanding of gender during this seminal period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining ideals of polite masculine conduct, the figure of the salon man, representations of male same-sex desire, and the case of a male cross-dresser, \u003ci\u003eManning the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e shows how elite men defined themselves in relation to women and other men and argues that dominant masculinity cannot always eclipse marginalized masculinities. The theoretical material and historical questions Seifert addresses will appeal not only to scholars and students in French studies and early modern studies, but also to historians as well as those interested in gender studies, sexuality studies, and transgender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLewis C. Seifert is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eFairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor (with Todd Reeser) of \u003ci\u003eEntre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory.\u003c\/i\u003e Visit the author's website: http:\/\/research.brown.edu\/myresearch\/Lewis_C._Seifert. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55093537636726,"sku":"9780472050581","price":28.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31287006.jpg?v=1734535286","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780472050581-manning-the-margins","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}