Frail Social Body - Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France

Carolyn J. Dean is Professor of History at Brown University and author of The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject (1992) and Sexuality and Modern Western Culture (1996). “This innovative and important work demonstrates the growing importance of homosexuality and pornography in the Western concept of bodily integrity from the 1880s to World War II. It is a wise ‘think piece’ about uncharted historical terrain—the most desirable kind of scholarship.”—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice “In this fascinating book, Carolyn Dean forces us to rethink many of our basic assumptions about pornography, homosexuality, and sexual rights. She brings together a vast repertoire of sources and places these eclectic materials at the very center of contemporary debates over the relationship between sexuality and society.”—Bryant T. Ragan, coeditor of Homosexuality in Modern France Zusammenfassung Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. This title shows how they attempted to reconstruct the 'bodily integrity' of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carolyn J. Dean
• Con la collaborazione di: Carolyn J. Dean (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.02.2000
• EAN: 9780520219953
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21995-3
• Pagine: 275
• Serie: Studies on the History of Soci; Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; History, Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Gender studies, gender groups