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Article: The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood, by Christopher E. Forth. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 300 pp. $46.95.
Although other scholars have written about gender and the Dreyfus Affair, Christopher Forth's The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood is the first book to concentrate exclusively on gender within the context of Dreyfus Affair. (1) Moreover, the third part of the book extends beyond the Affair to examine the "new man and the culture of force" which emerged at the fin de siecle. As Forth argues, cultural historians have tended to avoid the Dreyfus Affair, while most historians of the Affair have sidestepped ...