Homosexuality in Modern France Hardback
by Jeffrey (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisc Merrick, Bryant T. (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University Ragan
Part of the Studies in the History of Sexuality series
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This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of "homosexuality" in the modern sense of the word.
Based on archival research and textual analysis, the articles examine the development of homosexual subcultures and illustrate the ways in which philosophes, pamphleteers, police, novelists, scientists, and politiciansconceptualized same-sex relations and connected them with more general concerns about order and disorder.
The contributors--Elizabeth Colwill, Michael David Sibalis, Victoria Thompson, William Peniston, Vernon RosarioII, Francesca Canade-Sautman, Martha Hanna, Robert A.
Nye, and the editors Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. and Jeffrey Merrick--use the methods of intellectual and cultural history, the history of science, literary studies, legal and social history, and microhistory.
This collection shows how the subject of homosexuality is related to important topics in French history: the Enlightenment, the revolutionary tradition, social discipline, positivism, elite and popular culture, nationalism, feminism, and theconstruction of identity.Given the role of gays and lesbians in modern French culture and the work of French scholars on the history of sexuality, this collection fills animportant gap in the literature and represents the first attempt in any language to explore this subject over three centuries from a variety of perspectives.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:07/11/1996
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- ISBN:9780195093032
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:07/11/1996
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- ISBN:9780195093032