Oberlin Digital Commons at Oberlin Honors Papers Student Work 2010 The Infected Republic: Damaged Masculinity in French Political Journalism, 1934-1938 Emily C. Ringler Oberlin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors Part of the History Commons Repository Citation Ringler, Emily C., "The Infected Republic: Damaged Masculinity in French Political Journalism, 1934-1938" (2010). Honors Papers. 392. https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/392 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Digital Commons at Oberlin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Papers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons at Oberlin. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Infected Republic: Damaged Masculinity in French Political Journalism 1934-1938 Emily Ringler Submitted for Honors in the Department of History April 30, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 3 Introduction 4 Chapter I: Constructing and Dismantling Ideals of French Masculinity in the Third Republic 10 Man and Republic: the Gendering of Citizenship 10 Deviance and Degenerates in the Third Republic 14 The Dreyfus Affair and Schisms in Ideals of Masculinity 22 Dystopia and Elusive Utopia: Masculinity and Les Années Folles 24 Political Instability and Sexual Symbolism in the 1930s 29 Chapter II: The Threat of the Other: Representations of Damaged Masculinity on the Right 31 Defining the Right Through Its Uses of Masculinity 31 Images of the Other 33 The Foreign Other as the