Description:
Fashioning Masculinity offers an innovative perspective on Anglo-French relations in the eighteenth century, bringing together the themes of gender, nationality, identity and masculinity. Cohen draws comparisons with perceptions of today.
Review Quotes:
'An important contribution to an expanding literature on prescriptive materials in the eighteenth century.' - Times Literary Supplement.
'Cohen's book is a highly original and beautifully crafted piece of work. It overflows with ideas and sheds fresh light on a wide range of issues relevant to gender historians of this period...This thought-provoking book should clearly provoke further research.' - Elizabeth Foyster, Clare College, Cambridge, UK