High Anxiety

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High Anxiety is written by Kathleen Perry Long and published by Penn State Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0271090979 (ISBN 10) and 9780271090979 (ISBN 13).

This collection explores the evolution of notions about masculinity during the intense crisis of Renaissance and early modern France. Authors of the period reflect the anxieties about masculinity that became more pronounced against the backdrop of major events and innovations of the period: the religious conflict in France, the repeated questioning of religious and royal authority, the revival of Greek skepticism, the discovery of the New World, and the rise of clinical medicine. These events in turn fueled growing doubt concerning the fixed and hierarchical nature of gender distinction, a distinction upon which many felt French culture was dependent for its very survival.