Homosexuality in Modern France

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Merrick is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of The Desacralization of the French Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century, along with numerous articles on early modern French political culture. Bryant T. Ragan, Jr., is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. He is the co-editor of Re-creating Authority in Revolutionary France, and has authored articles on rural political culture during the French Revolution. Klappentext This volume explores homosexuality in eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century France. Examining the evolution of behavior, 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. Zusammenfassung This volume explores homosexuality in eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century France. Examining the evolution of behavior, 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. (Assistant Professor of History Ragan
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Merrick (Editor), Bryant T. Jr. Ragan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.1996
• EAN: 9780195093049
• ISBN: 978-0-19-509304-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality; Studies in the History of Sexu; Studies in the History of Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories