1st Edition
Homosexuality in French History and Culture
304 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
by
Routledge
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Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism!
Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, from the essays of Michel de Montaigne to pride parades in contemporary Paris. This groundbreaking book documents the ways... Read more
Contents
- Introduction
- “That Friendship which Possesses the Soul”: Montaigne Loves La Boétie
- Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudéry’s “Historie de Sapho”
- Masculinity and Satires of “Sodomites” in France, 1660-1715
- The Abominable Madame de Murat
- The “Italian Taste” in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-92
- “Brutal Passion” and “Depraved Taste”: The Case of Jacques-François Pascal
- “Au sein de vos pareilles”: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France
- The Palais-Royal and the Homosexual Subculture of Nineteenth-Century Paris
- Les Chevaliers de la guirlande: Cellmates in Restoration France
- Homosexuals in the City: Representatives of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris
- Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s
- Drames d’amour de pédérastes: Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Belle Epoque Print Culture
- Homosexuality in the French Colonies
- Folles, Swells, Effeminates, and Homophiles in Saint Germain-des-Prés of the 1950s: A New “Precious” Society
- The Birth of a French Homosexual Press in the 1950s
- The Construction of a Political and Media Presence: The Homosexual Liberation Groups in France Between 1975 and 1978
- Gay Mimesis and Misogyny: Two Aspects of the Same Refusal of the Other?
- Contributors
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis
