Robert A Nye
Biographic Data
| ID | 137484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Nye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nye |
| SIGNATURE | NYE R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pierrot and His World: Art, Theatricality, and the Marketplace in France, 1697–1945
Misfits” in Fin-de-Siecle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference by Susan A. Ashley
Reviewed by: “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siecle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference by Susan A. Ashley Robert A. Nye Susan A. Ashley. “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siecle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. ix + 300 pp. $114.00 (978-1-350-01339-1). The “misfits” of this book’s title represents the author’s effort to find a term that might encompass the vast range of physical and mental abnormalities that were identified by la…
The Crowd
Gustav Le Bon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scientific books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, Le Bon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem of science and power, a natural phenomenon with practical implications. Originally published in 1895, Le Bon's was the first to expand the scope of inquiry beyond criminal cro…
An Introduction toScientific Masculinities
This volume seeks to integrate gender analysis into the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity, the part of the gender equation that has received the least attention from scholars. The premise of the volume is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as foils for femininity and as methods of differentiating between "kinds" of men. In exploring scientific m…
God’s Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline (review)
Reviewed by: God’s Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline Robert A. Nye Andrés Horacio Reggiani. God’s Eugenicist: Alexis Carrel and the Sociobiology of Decline. Berghahn Monographs in French Studies, vol. 6. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. xviii + 242 pp. Ill. $80.00 (1-84545-172-4). In this exemplary biography of the Nobel prize–winning surgeon Alexis Carrel, Andrés Reggiani manages to provide a balanced account of a man whos…
Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870 (review)
Reviewed by: Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870 Robert A. Nye Staffan Müller-WilleHans-Jörg Rheinberger, eds. Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. x + 496 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-262-13476-7). This multiauthor volume originated from a long-term collaborative proj…
Women, Work and Citizenship in France since 1789
Western Masculinities in War and Peace
It was a commonplace for America's founding fathers to evoke the ideal of the ancient Greek and Roman citizen-soldier as a model for their own times, nurtured as they were on the principles of republican discourse. Even before the proclamation of independence, George Washington affirmed that "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in that happy hour when the re-establishment of …
Masculinity, Autocracy, and the Russian University 1804–1863 ‐ by Rebecca Friedman
Médecins, éthique médicale et État en France 1789-1947
Entre la réorganisation de la médecine pendant la Révolution Française et le régime de Vichy, le processus de professionnalisation de la médecine française n'a pas inclu un ensemble fiable et écrit de consignes éthiques. L'État a autorisé les médecins à exercer mais ne leur a pour ainsi dire pas assuré de protection légale contre la concurrence de la médecine irrégulière. Les praticiens ont été obligés de s'organiser de façon informelle pour prot…
Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature
Book Review| January 01 2005 Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative LiteratureFurst, Lilian R. Robert A. Nye Robert A. Nye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (3): 244–246. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247498 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Ci…
Locating Masculinity: Some Recent Work on Men
The Pacte Civil de SolidaritÃ(c) and the History of Sexuality
We might begin with a few comparative remarks about sex and politics in France and the US. Americans were treated in 1998 to a deliciously painful set of events that precipitated a full-scale constitutional crisis in the US and some rethinking of the relations of the public and private spheres. Despite what seemed to many French observers as a more or less unproblematic White House sex scandal, it was denied by American commentators left and righ…
The evolution of the concept of medicalization in the late twentieth century
This article attempts to outline a history of the critique of medicalization that developed in the 1960s in the work of Thomas Szasz, R. D. Laing, Michael Foucault, and others that was applied in their work to medical and psychiatric theory and practice, the penal system, and public health systems. This article follows the development of Foucault's own work on "governmentality" that emphasized the individualization and internalization of the them…
Fertility and Contraception during the Demographic Transition: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Demographic, cultural, and oral-history approaches to the study of falling fertility in nineteenth-and twentieth-century France, Canada, Britain, Holland, Norway, and Finland confirm the importance of the persistent usage of "traditional" methods of birth control-such as coitus interruptus, abortion, and forms of periodic abstinence-throughout the period when fertility fell, though fertility fell in each case at a different point in time. These s…
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France (review)
This book is a study of the history of judicial torture in France, between the early seventeenth century and its formal abolition by the Crown at the very end of the old regime. Lisa Silverman has sought to explore the relationship of legal torture to the epistemologies of truth and pain, so the book also has a genuine interest for historians of medicine. One chapter is devoted to developing a useful contrast between the juridical concept of the …
Two sisters and their mother: The anthropology of incest
Contagion: Disease, Government, and the "Social Question" in Nineteenth-Century France , by Andrew R. Aisenberg
Sexuality
Sexuality has always been an obsessive human concern; it has often been the real subject of cultural, religious, and political discourses that did not dare to mention it or did not have the language for addressing it directly. We now possess both the language and the cultural temerity to discuss sexuality as straightforwardly as we like, and with a frankness that would have shocked people a few decades ago. It now seems impossible to contemplate …
The Eclectic Legacy: Academic Philosophy and the Human Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France
This book places the careers and writings of four pioneering French social scientists-Theodule Ribot, Alfred Espinas, Pierre Janet and Emile Durkheim-in the context of academic philosophy. Thus, both the intellectual legacy of academic philosophy and the originality of the early social scientists appear in a new and surprising light
"Medicine and Science as Masculine "Fields of Honor
This essay examines the role of gender ideology in shaping the professional identities of doctors and scientists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the United States, France, and Great Britain, it argues that medical and scientific men constructed their professional authority in part by linking it to masculinity. They did so by excluding women from these fields, by characterizing scientific objectivity as a specifically …
The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (review)
Reviewed by: The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France Robert A. Nye David S. Barnes. The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. xiv + 305 pp. Ill. $42.00. This book makes a notable contribution to the growing literature on medical thinking as a cultural or ideological system. In this instance David S. Barnes explores th…
Honor
Feature Review Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory . Ian Hacking
De l'honneur nobiliaire à l'honorabilité bourgeoise: Les origines de la masculinité moderne
Nye Robert A. De l'honneur nobiliaire à l'honorabilité bourgeoise . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 105, décembre 1994. Stratégies de reproduction et transmission des pouvoirs. pp. 46-51
The evolution of the concept of medicalization in the late twentieth century
This article attempts to outline a history of the critique of medicalization that developed in the 1960s in the work of Thomas Szasz, R. D. Laing, Michael Foucault, and others that was applied in their work to medical and psychiatric theory and practice, the penal system, and public health systems. This article follows the development of Foucault's own work on "governmentality" that emphasized the individualization and internalization of the them…
"Medicine and Science as Masculine "Fields of Honor
This essay examines the role of gender ideology in shaping the professional identities of doctors and scientists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the United States, France, and Great Britain, it argues that medical and scientific men constructed their professional authority in part by linking it to masculinity. They did so by excluding women from these fields, by characterizing scientific objectivity as a specifically …
The History of Sexuality in Context: National Sexological Traditions
The ArgumentI argue here that in its historical development, sexology developed differently in France than elsewhere in Europe. Though I concur that the modern notion of "sexuality" arose some time in the last half of the nineteenth century, the older notion of "sex" persisted in French science and medicine for a far longer time than elsewhere because of a fear that nonreproductive sexual behavior would deepen the country's population crisis. I a…
An Introduction toScientific Masculinities
This volume seeks to integrate gender analysis into the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity, the part of the gender equation that has received the least attention from scholars. The premise of the volume is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as foils for femininity and as methods of differentiating between "kinds" of men. In exploring scientific m…
The origins of crowd psychology: Gustave Le Bon and the crisis of mass democracy in the Third Republic
225 p. : 22 cm
Locating Masculinity: Some Recent Work on Men
Degeneration, Neurasthenia and the Culture of Sport in Belle Epoque France
There are signs that physical culture and fitness first attained a definite level of political significance in modern Europe in the German nationalist opposition to the Napoleonic occupation. For a brief and heady period, educated Germans regarded physical training as important independently of military training and essential in its own right to the rebirth of the German nation. But the reactionary environment of the Restoration militated against…
Heredity or Milieu: The Foundations of Modern European Criminological Theory
Two Paths to a Psychology of Social Action: Gustave LeBon and Georges Sorel
The rise and fall of the Eugenics empire: Recent perspectives on the impact of biomedical thought in modern society
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Honor, Impotence, and Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Medicine
Historians of sexuality have noted a tendency in nineteenth-century medical discourse to conflate sex, gender, and sexuality and to treat the identity of individuals as biologically or naturally determined. ' This sexual essentialism, as Jeffrey Weeks has termed it, has helped perpetuate the myth that personal identity is eternally trapped within a binary opposition of male and female difference.2 An important feature of this outlook has been to …
Fertility and Contraception during the Demographic Transition: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Demographic, cultural, and oral-history approaches to the study of falling fertility in nineteenth-and twentieth-century France, Canada, Britain, Holland, Norway, and Finland confirm the importance of the persistent usage of "traditional" methods of birth control-such as coitus interruptus, abortion, and forms of periodic abstinence-throughout the period when fertility fell, though fertility fell in each case at a different point in time. These s…
De l'honneur nobiliaire à l'honorabilité bourgeoise: Les origines de la masculinité moderne
Nye Robert A. De l'honneur nobiliaire à l'honorabilité bourgeoise . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 105, décembre 1994. Stratégies de reproduction et transmission des pouvoirs. pp. 46-51
Fencing, the Duel and Republican Manhood in the Third Republic
This paper will illustrate the principle that masculinities, like femininities and other forms of identity, are constructed. In arguing this point, it pays homage to a well established tradition in the history of sexuality and gender roles that is now many years old. This body of writing has emerged, at least in part, as a reaction against the long dominion in Western culture of an essentialist view of sexual identity, which has held that the ski…
The Pacte Civil de SolidaritÃ(c) and the History of Sexuality
We might begin with a few comparative remarks about sex and politics in France and the US. Americans were treated in 1998 to a deliciously painful set of events that precipitated a full-scale constitutional crisis in the US and some rethinking of the relations of the public and private spheres. Despite what seemed to many French observers as a more or less unproblematic White House sex scandal, it was denied by American commentators left and righ…
Feature Review Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory . Ian Hacking
Crime in Modern Societies: Some Research Strategies for Historians
Journal Article Crime in Modern Societies: Some Research Strategies for Historians Get access Robert A. Nye Robert A. Nye University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 11, Issue 4, Summer 1978, Pages 491–507, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/11.4.491 Published: 01 July 1978
Two Paths to a Psychology of Social Action: Gustave LeBon and Georges Sorel
The origins of crowd psychology: Gustave Le Bon and the crisis of mass democracy in the Third Republic
225 p. : 22 cm
Academy and Community: The Foundation of the French Historical Profession
Heredity or Milieu: The Foundations of Modern European Criminological Theory
Crime in Modern Societies: Some Research Strategies for Historians
Journal Article Crime in Modern Societies: Some Research Strategies for Historians Get access Robert A. Nye Robert A. Nye University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 11, Issue 4, Summer 1978, Pages 491–507, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/11.4.491 Published: 01 July 1978
Degeneration, Neurasthenia and the Culture of Sport in Belle Epoque France
There are signs that physical culture and fitness first attained a definite level of political significance in modern Europe in the German nationalist opposition to the Napoleonic occupation. For a brief and heady period, educated Germans regarded physical training as important independently of military training and essential in its own right to the rebirth of the German nation. But the reactionary environment of the Restoration militated against…
Science, Society, and Ideology in France: II. The Crowd Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France . Susanna Barrows L'age des foules: Un traite historique de psycholog…
Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline
Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously ou…
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture: Toward a New Science of History
The author argues that Foucault's archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics. She examines Foucault's view of the relationship between power and knowledge and goes on to discuss the new concepts of space, time, subject, and causality expres…
Sociology and Degeneration: The Irony of Progress
The Bio-Medicol Origins of Urban Sociology
The Invention of Tradition. Eric Hobsbawm , Terence Ranger
Professions and the French State, 1700-1900 . Gerald L. Geison
The influences of evolutionary theory on Pareto's sociology
This paper argues that the influence of evolutionary theory on the sociology of Vilfredo Pareto has been generally misunderstood or overlooked, largely on account of Pareto's own contemptuous rejection of "finalist" Darwinian evolution. But the sources of Pareto's evolutionary ideas were French, not English. Neo-Lamarckian notions of inheritance and the related concept of degeneration helped support Pareto's explanation of social evolution, espec…
Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination. Alain Corbin , Miriam Kochan
Honor, Impotence, and Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Medicine
Historians of sexuality have noted a tendency in nineteenth-century medical discourse to conflate sex, gender, and sexuality and to treat the identity of individuals as biologically or naturally determined. ' This sexual essentialism, as Jeffrey Weeks has termed it, has helped perpetuate the myth that personal identity is eternally trapped within a binary opposition of male and female difference.2 An important feature of this outlook has been to …
Fencing, the Duel and Republican Manhood in the Third Republic
This paper will illustrate the principle that masculinities, like femininities and other forms of identity, are constructed. In arguing this point, it pays homage to a well established tradition in the history of sexuality and gender roles that is now many years old. This body of writing has emerged, at least in part, as a reaction against the long dominion in Western culture of an essentialist view of sexual identity, which has held that the ski…
Honor Codes in Modern France. A Historical Anthropology
Historians have traditionally considered codes of honor as creations of the old regime that did not prosper in modern industrialized society, surviving, at best, as cultural anachronisms in a vestigial aristocracy. Anthropologists, on the other hand, have found ample evidence of honor cultures in contemporary Mediterranean societies, which suggests some continuity with the old regime. This paper investigates the historical transmission of codes o…
Drink and the Politics of Social Reform: Antialcoholism in France Since 1870, by Patricia E. Prestwich
The History of Sexuality in Context: National Sexological Traditions
The ArgumentI argue here that in its historical development, sexology developed differently in France than elsewhere in Europe. Though I concur that the modern notion of "sexuality" arose some time in the last half of the nineteenth century, the older notion of "sex" persisted in French science and medicine for a far longer time than elsewhere because of a fear that nonreproductive sexual behavior would deepen the country's population crisis. I a…
Darwin's Influence on Freud: A Tale of Two Sciences . Lucille B. Ritvo
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
After a decade of works on women’s history, historians are becoming aware of the dearth of literature on men’s history. Professor Nye addresses this gap in a study of evolving definitions of masculinity in France since the eighteenth century. He examines specifically the aristocratic ethos of male honour, rooted in a society of landlords, hunters, and warriors, adapted to a society motivated by utilitarian values, urban life, and rational law. He…
The rise and fall of the Eugenics empire: Recent perspectives on the impact of biomedical thought in modern society
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
De l'honneur nobiliaire à l'honorabilité bourgeoise: Les origines de la masculinité moderne
Nye Robert A. De l'honneur nobiliaire à l'honorabilité bourgeoise . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 105, décembre 1994. Stratégies de reproduction et transmission des pouvoirs. pp. 46-51
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