1. Greek virilities / Maurice Sartre
2. Roman virilities / Jean-Paul Thuillier
Hybridity and transformation / Bruno Dumézil
Medieval strength and blood / Claude Thomasset
4. Absolute virility in the early modern world
Convictions and questionings / Georges Vigarello
Paradoxical masculinity / Lawrence D. Kritzman
Examples from painting / Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen
5. The virile man and the savage in the lands of exploration / Georges Vigarello
6. Uneasy virility in the age of enlightenment
Common folks' virility / Arlette Farge
Men of fiction / Michel Delon
7. The code of virility: inculcation
The triumph of virility / Alain Corbin
Childhood, or the "journey toward virility" / Ivan Jablonka
8. The duel and the defense of virile honor / François Guillet
9. The necessary manifestation of sexual energy / Alain Corbin
10. Military virility / Jean-Paul Bertaud
11. Virility in the colonial context: from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century / Christelle Taraud
12. The burden of virility
The injunction of virility, source of anguish and anxiety / Alain Corbin
Homosexuality and virility / Régis Revenin
13. The Great War and the history of virility / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau
14. Origins and transformations of male domination
Impossible virility / Jean-Jacques Courtine
Anthropology of virility: the fear of powerlessness / Claudine Haroche
15. Virilities on edge, violent virilities / Fabrice Virgili
16. Virility through the looking glass of women / Christine Bard
17. "One is not born virile, one becomes so" / Arnaud Baubérot
18. Fascist virility / Johann Chapoutot
19. Working-class virility / Thierry Pillon
20. Homosexual transformations / Florence Tamagne
21. Exhibitions: virility stripped bare / Bruno Nassim Aboudrar
22. Brawn in civilization: virile myth and muscular power / Jean-Jacques Courtine.
