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Living in Arcadia : homosexuality, politics, and morality in France from the liberation to AIDS / Julian Jackson.

LIBRA HQ76.3.F8 J33 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jackson, Julian, 1954-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Homosexuality--France--History.
Homosexuality.
Baudry, André.
History.
France.
Physical Description:
xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Contents:
Cambridge to Paris, 1978
"The French exception": gay historiography in France
Arcadie: the unknown story
Rethinking Arcadie
The background
Homosexuality in France from the revolution to Vichy
Homosexuality and the revolution
Regulating sexual disorder in the nineteenth century
French variations
Paris as Sodom
Homosexuality in belle-époque Paris
The interwar years: talking about homosexuality
The shadow of the occupation, 1942-1955
Blame it on Gide
Fascinating fascism: sleeping with the enemy
Liberation: "beautiful babies" and unruly youths
Moral order
Freedom in clandestinity: the "civilization of the pissotières"
Fighting the Puritans: futur
Et in Arcadia ego, 1954-1968
Beginnings, 1954-1956
Losing a vocation, 1922-1945
Finding a vocation, 1946-1952
Young man in a hurry, 1953
Recruiting support: treason of the clerks, 1954
Teething troubles I: quarrel with Amsterdam, 1955-1956
Teething troubles II: "a danger to youth" 1955-1956
Survival, 1956-1968
Living in the catacombs, 1956-1957
Putting down roots, 1957-1959
A new recruit: Daniel Guérin
"Social scourge" 1960
Arcadie embattled, 1960-1964
Arcadie becalmed, 1964-1968
The vision of Arcadie: homosexuality and ethics
The homophile international
Escaping the shadow of Gide
Science and history
"Permanent and diffuse revolution"
The politics of dignity
Ethics and authenticity: assuming one's condition
The secret garden
Living in Arcadie
A spiritual family
Finding Arcadie
Arriving at Arcadie
The provincial desert
Building a library I
Building a library II
The club
"La bonne parole" I: preaching the Arcadian life
"La bonne parole" II: living the Arcadian life
Arcadie contested, 1968-1982
The deluge, 1968-1972
Sexual revolutions
1968: the revolution and sex
Monks in the dark ages?
"Homosexuality, this painful problem"
The rise and fall of FHAR
The "toads of Arcadie"
The Arcadie years, 1973-1978
Recognition at last
The "Arcadian people"
Competitors I: the sex explosion
Competitors II: the political explosion
The Giscardian moment
Splendors and miseries of homosexual life
Political openings
Coming out, Arcadie style: "living without a mask"
The pedophile moment
Living in the ghetto: gay island or sad asylum?
The end, 1979-1982
Apotheosis: May 1979
Realignments on the left
Arcadie misses the boat
The last days
Reactions
Conclusion
End of an era
The Arcadian diaspora
All Arcadians now?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226389257
0226389251
OCLC:
317922976

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