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Revenge of the fascist knights: Masculine identities in Je suis partout, 1940–1944

The débâcle of 1940 permitted an attack in France both on republican institutions and on republican ideas. Indeed, sections within the radical Right, including the Parisian literary fascists involved with the collaborationist weekly Je suis partout, staged an elaborate revenge on all that the Third Republic had symbolised. The contributors to the newspaper envisaged, not always consciously, that the new European Order would be based not only on such a reinvention of politics but on a reconfiguration of manliness. In this way, they were able simultaneously to blame the swiftness of the French collapse on the inadequate nature of the French male population and to seek a discursive rehabilitation of that same body of men through their narratives. A reading of the fiction and journalism in Je suis partout suggests that such gendered ruminations allowed these authors to reconcile the defeat with their faith in the grandeur of France and its soldiers.

Book ReviewsThe Reinvention of Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order. By Ulrich Beck. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. Pp. vi+206.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews The Reinvention of Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order. By Ulrich Beck. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. Pp. vi+206.Roland RobertsonRoland RobertsonUniversity of Pittsburgh Search for more articles by this author University of PittsburghPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 103, Number 6May 1998 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/231416 Views: 59Total views on this site Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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The reinvention of politics: rethinking modernity in the global social order

The reinvention of politics: rethinking modernity in the global social order