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The frail social body : pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France / Carolyn J. Dean.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
- Series:
- Studies on the history of society and culture ; 36.
- Studies on the history of society and culture ; 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pornography--France.
- Pornography.
- Homosexuality--France.
- Homosexuality.
- Sex (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there--journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others--worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct the ""bodily integrity"" of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pornography and Perversion; 2. Pornography, Literature, and the Redemption of Virility; 3. The Great War, Pornography, and the Violated Social Body; 4. The Making of Gay Male Sexuality; 5. The Making of Lesbian Sexuality; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92348-0
- 1-59734-619-5
- OCLC:
- 475928759
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