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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
Available from offsite location
- 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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