SEXING THE CITIZEN. Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has a couple of tiny closed tears to the top edge.

Historian Judith Surkis argues that male sexuality and its relationship with marriage were central to the making of a republican social order in Third Republic France.