Homosexuality in Modern France

Klappentext Research in the Field of Gay and Lesbian Studies has exploded in recent years, but the books published to date focus more on literary than historical issues, and concentrate more on the United States and Great Britain than the rest of the world. Given the role of gays and lesbians in modern French culture, not to mention the importance of the work of French scholars on the history of sexuality, France has been underrepresented in recent publications on both sides of the Atlantic. This exciting collection is the first attempt in any language to explore this subject over three centuries from a variety of perspectives. Based on archival research textual analysis, Homosexuality in Modern France examines 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 world. Zusammenfassung This volume explores homosexuality in eighteenth! nineteenth! and twentieth century France. Examining the evolution of behaviour! identities! and representation in the period when homosexuality! in the modern sense of the term! emerged! the essays outline the development of homosexual subcultures and patterns of sexual repression and liberation.

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• Authors: Jeffrey Merrick, Jeffrey (Associate Professor of History Merrick, Jeffrey Ragan Merrick, Bryant T Ragan, Bryant T. Ragan, Bryant T. (Assistant Professor of History Ragan
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Merrick (Editor), Bryant T Ragan (Editor), Bryant T. Ragan (Editor), Bryant T. Jr. Ragan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.1996
• EAN: 9780195093032
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509303-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality; Studies in the History of Sexu; Studies in the History of Sexuality; Studies in the History of Sexu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories