Gay Studies From the French Cultures
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Now English-speaking readers can gain new access to valuable information on homosexuality and homosociality written by French-speaking scholars and researchers. Gay Studies From the French Cultures contains work taken from symposia held by the Research and Study Group on Homosociality and Homosexualities (GREH) in France over the past several years. GREH, founded by Mendès-Leite in 1986, is a forum and university network designed to open and enrich debate and interdisciplinary research on homosociality, homosexuality, and lesbianism. The chapters, all translated from their original French, represent a mosaic of scholars from Brazil, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada, as well as France, giving readers a broad perspective on the subject. Although authors share cultural roots and connections through GREH, the book contains a deliberate disparity of topics and points of view from French-speaking persons in the western hemisphere, seeking to heighten understanding through diversity. The book is divided into three parts: Theoretical Background, Lesbian History and Commentary, and Gay Male History and Commentary. Some of the various topics discussed include: theoretical background on sexualities and gender studies gay and lesbian history homosexuality and AIDS nineteenth century's French gay and lesbian history sociology of Brazilian homosexualities French-spoken Canadian history on sexualities historiographiesAn enlightening volume, Gay Studies From the French Cultures provides a bridge between English-language and Francophone research on homosexuality, increasing the knowledge, awareness, and understanding of a whole new group of readers. Booknews Providing a bridge between English-language and Francophone research on homosexuality, this volume contains work taken from symposia held at the Sorbonne by the Research and Study Group on Homosociality and Homosexualities over the past several years. The papers are organized in sections devoted to theoretical background, lesbian history and commentary, gay male history and commentary, the New World, and childhood sexuality. The papers are translated from the French. Also published as Journal of Homosexuality, v.25, nos.(1/2)(3), 1993. Paper edition (1-56023-043-6), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
In Memoriam: Frank AmalIn Memoriam: Michael PollakPrefaceIntroduction1On the Esthetics of Pleasures: Guidelines for a Socio-Anthropology of (Homo)sexualities17Identification or the Pluralisation of the Person31Foucault: The Imaginary Sex41Between Man and Woman: The Character of the Lesbian63Myths and Historiographies of Lesbian Sexuality75Sappho Mythified, Sappho Mystified or The Metamorphoses of Sappho in Fin de Siecle France87Silenced Resistances and Conflictual Identities: Lesbians in France, 1930-1968105Twentieth Century Lesbians: Should We Revive Memory or Break with the Past127Paederasty and Political Life in Archaic Greek Cities147Homosexual Exile: The Textuality of the Imaginary Paradise, 1800-1980165A Homosexual Militant at the Beginning of the Century: Marc Andre Raffalovich183The Minitel: The Glittering Future of a New Invention193Gai Pied After Ten Years: A Commercial Success, A Moral Bankruptcy?205French Renaissance Travel Accounts: Images of Sin, Visions of the New World215Remembering Lesbian Bars: Montreal, 1955-1975231A Game of Appearances: The "Ambigusexuality" in Brazilian Culture of Sexuality271On a "Minority Complex"283The Evolution of the AIDS Illness and the Polarisation of Values293Homosexual Rituals and Safer Sex307Homosexuals and AIDS: A New Approach to the Illness319Index329
