Homosexuality in French History and Culture
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 homosexuality has been named, experienced, regulated, understood, and imagined.\ During these...
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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 homosexuality has been named, experienced, regulated, understood, and imagined. During these centuries, homosexuality has been stigmatized as a sin, crime, or disease, and denounced as a threat to social order and national identity. Yet the rhetoric of condemnation has always co-existed with the reality of toleration. This groundbreaking collection analyzes the ways in which persecutions, as well as differences within minority sexual subcultures, have highlighted stereotypes and anxieties about class and age differences, gendered roles, and separatism. Homosexuality in French History and Culture offers historical and literary studies based on a wide variety of sources, including: novels, plays, and poetry gossip and satires police reports medical texts travel literature newspapers and periodicals memoirsHomosexuality in French History and Culture combines fresh, creative re-interpretation of familiar texts with exciting new explorations of neglected historical episodes and cultures. It is a landmark of meticulous scholarship and rigorous theoretical analysis, and a vital resource for scholars of queer theory, French history and culture, and literary criticism.BooknewsContributors in French history and literature and in gay and lesbian studies explore episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the 16th to the 21st century. They analyze the way in which persecutions, as well as differences within minority sexual subcultures, have highlighted stereotypes about class and age differences, gendered roles, and separatism. Merrick teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sibalis teaches modern European and French history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. The book is co-published simultaneously as , vol. 41, nos. 3/4, 2001. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Introduction1"That Friendship Which Possesses the Soul": Montaigne Loves La Boetie5Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudery's "Histoire de Sapho"23Masculinity and Satires of "Sodomites" in France, 1660-171537The Abominable Madame de Murat53The "Italian Taste" in the Time of Louis XVI, 1774-9269"Brutal Passion" and "Depraved Taste": The Case of Jacques-Francois Pascal85"Au sein de vos pareilles": Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France105The Palais-Royal and the Homosexual Subculture of Nineteenth-Century Paris117Les Chevaliers de la guirlande: Cellmates in Restoration France131Homosexuals in the City: Representations of Lesbian and Gay Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris149Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets in Paris of the 1870s169Drames d'amour des pederastes: Male Same-Sex Sexuality in Belle Epoque Print Culture189Homosexuality in the French Colonies201Folles, Swells, Effeminates, and Homophiles in Saint-Germain-des-Pres of the 1950s: A New "Precious" Society?219The Birth of a French Homosexual Press in the 1950s233The Construction of a Political and Media Presence: The Homosexual Liberation Groups in France Between 1975 and 1978249Gay Mimesis and Misogyny: Two Aspects of the Same Refusal of the Other?265Contributors281Index285
\ BooknewsContributors in French history and literature and in gay and lesbian studies explore episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the 16th to the 21st century. They analyze the way in which persecutions, as well as differences within minority sexual subcultures, have highlighted stereotypes about class and age differences, gendered roles, and separatism. Merrick teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sibalis teaches modern European and French history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. The book is co-published simultaneously as , vol. 41, nos. 3/4, 2001. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
