Histories of French Sexuality
From the Enlightenment to the Present
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially scholars of French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the past and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader discipline of history. The topics include early empire-building, religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the modern self, medicine, urbanization, decolonization, the social world of postwar France, and the rise of modern and social media.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Colonial Liberties
- 2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata
- 3. Unchaste Women
- 4. Domesticating Pleasure
- 5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900
- 6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France
- 7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909
- 8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu
- 9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal
- 10. Sex before 1968
- 11. Creating Lesbian Community
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
- About Nina Kushner
- About Andrew Israel Ross