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2. See Alain Corbin, Les filles de noces: Misère sexuelle et prostitution aux XiXe et XXe siècles (Paris, 1978)
3. A Corbin, ‘Le “sexe-en-deuil” et l’histoire des femmes au XIXe siècle,’ in Michelle Perrot, ed., Une histoire des femmes, est-elle possible? (Marseille, 1984)
4. Robert Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in France (Berkeley, CA, 1992).
5. See R.W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (Stanford, CA. 1987), pp. 18, 183.