Veerle Fraeters & Imke de Gier (dir.), Mulieres religiosae. Shaping Female Spiritual Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: At the end of the nineteenth century, the French army saw itself as a national institution with the task of passing on to conscripts the values of the “military-virility model”. But did soldiers always retain this “lesson in virility”? Asking the question means exploring the different ways in which this model might be received, drawing on some of the methodological principles raised by gender studies. Before being a heightened representation of masculinity, the military-virility model is a gender category reflecting a power relationship, whether it is concerned to justify military obedience or more generally masculine, racial or social domination. This model cannot therefore be considered as a blanket representation passed on to the whole population of servicemen, but rather as the always individual product of a power relationship aiming to make certain forms of domination seem natural, and to arouse a desire for identification.
Source: Clio
DOI: 10.4000/clio.14632
Author: Damien Boquet
Language: Dutch
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3098811082
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