Public city/public sex : homosexuality, prostitution, and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris / Andrew Israel Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Andrew Israel, 1983- author.

Series:

Sexuality studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male homosexuality--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Male homosexuality.

Prostitution--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Prostitution.

Public sex--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Public sex.

City and town life--France--Paris--History--19th century.

City and town life.

City planning--France--Paris--History--19th century.

City planning.

Social control--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Social control.

History.

Paris (France)--Social conditions--19th century.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--Social policy.

Social conditions.

Social policy.

France--Paris.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"In the nineteenth century, Paris was redesigned in ways intended to exercise social control over its citizens. This effort to control certain kinds of interactions, however, created new spaces that female prostitutes and men who sought sex with other men could use for public sex"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Regulation, the maison de tolerance, and the signs of sex

Public hygiene, public sex, and public urinals

On prostitutes and pederasts

Soliciting in the city : constructing a public sexual culture

Public sphere/public sex

Selling the pleasures of Paris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ross, Andrew Israel, 1983- author. Public citypublic sex

ISBN:

9781439914885

1439914885

9781439914892

1439914893

OCLC:

1082292714