Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Louise Labé’s Transgressions 1
6. Masculine Rhetoric and the French Blason anatomique 19
7. Primal Scenes/ Primal Screens: The Homosocial Economy of Dirty Jokes 37
8. Catherine, Cybele, and Ronsard’s Witnesses 55
9. Mother’s Milk from Father’s Breast: Maternity without Women in Male French Renaissance Lyric 71
10. Montaigne moqueur: “Virgile” and Its Geographies of Gender 93
11. Jacques Duval on Hermaphrodites 107
12. Molière’s Body Politic 139
13. A Curious Study in “Parallel Lives”: Louis XIV and the Abbé de Choisy 165
14. Pig or Prince? Murat, d’Aulnoy, and the Limits of Civilized Masculinity 183
15. Masculinity, Monarchy, and Metaphysics: A Crisis of Authority in Early Modern France 211
16. Contributors 233
17. Index 235