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Homosexuality in Modern France (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
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by Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan
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Cover Type: Paperback with 264 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA August 15, 1996
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195093046
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195093049
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 14.6 ounces
Product Review
"This book and others like it in series such as Oxford University Press' Studies in the History of Sexuality, are blowing the bounds of scholarship wide open."--Lambda Book Report
"highly readable collection of lucid and useful essaysHomosexuality in Modern France should probably be regarded as the book in which gay and lesbian studies in modern French history "come of age" and confidently display their range, depth, and solidity."--The Committee on Gay and Lesbian History
"This book is the best and most accessible effort yet to tell many stories about both men and women that are central to understanding the relationship between homosexuality and politics."--American Historical Review
"With this volume, Merrick and Ragan have provided students of early modern gender and sexuality a well-selected and well-organized collection of translated documents relating to male and female sodomy and homosexuality from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century in France. The volume will be immensely useful not only for students of early modern France who do not know enough French to read the sources, but also for scholars who do no have access to archival sources that do not exist in modern editions. The collection then is ideal for those beginning their study of early modern sexualities as well as for those seeking sources and source material for more advanced study and research in the area."--Sixteenth Century Journal
Product Description
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 politicians conceptualized 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 Rosario II, Francesca CanadeSautman, 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 to outline the development and evolution of homosexual patterns of repression and liberation . 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 the construction 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 an important 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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