Homosexuality in modern France / Jeffrey Merrick & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr., editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ragan, Bryant T., 1960- editor.

Merrick, Jeffrey, editor.

Series:

Studies in the history of sexuality.

Studies in the history of sexuality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--France--History.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores homosexuality in France from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The essays examine the evolution of behaviour, identities and representation in the period when homosexuality emerged, and outline the growth of homosexual subcultures and patterns of sexual repression and liberation.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality; 2. The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-century France; 3. Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution; 4. The Regulation of Male Homosexuality in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789-1815; 5. Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 1830-1870; 6. Love and Death in Gay Paris: Homosexuality and Criminality in the 1870s

7. Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts' Inversions8. Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in France, 1880-1930; 9. Natalism, Homosexuality, and the Controversy over Corydon; 10. Michel Foucault's Sexuality and the History of Homosexuality in France; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-509304-6

0-19-535767-1

1-280-44189-5

1-60256-009-9

1-4237-3583-8

OCLC:

228117391