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Homosexuality in Modern France

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This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of ''homosexuality'' in the modern sense of the word. Based on archival research and textual analysis, the articles examine the development of homosexual subcultures and illustrate the ways in which philosophes, pamphleteers, police, novelists, scientists, and politicians conceptualized same-sex relations and connected them with more general concerns about order and disorder. The contributors--Elizabeth Colwill, Michael David Sibalis, Victoria Thompson, William Peniston, Vernon Rosario II, Francesca CanadeSautman, Martha Hanna, Robert A. Nye, and the editors Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. and Jeffrey Merrick--use the methods of intellectual and cultural history, the history of science, literary studies, legal and social history, and microhistory. This collection shows how the subject of homosexuality is related to important topics in French history: the Enlightenment, the revolutionary tradition, social discipline, positivism, elite and popular culture, nationalism, feminism, and the construction of identity.

Given the role of gays and lesbians in modern French culture and the work of French scholars on the history of sexuality, this collection fills an important gap in the literature and represents the first attempt in any language to explore this subject over three centuries from a variety of perspectives.

Author(s): Jeffrey Merrick, Bryant T. Ragan Jr.
Series: Studies in the history of sexuality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1996

Language: English
Commentary: 72660
Pages: 264
City: New York

Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1. The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality......Page 19
2. The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-century France......Page 41
3. Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution......Page 65
4. The Regulation of Male Homosexuality in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789–1815......Page 91
5. Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 1830–1870......Page 113
6. Love and Death in Gay Paris: Homosexuality and Criminality in the 1870s......Page 139
7. Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts' Inversions......Page 157
8. Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in France, 1880–1930......Page 188
9. Natalism, Homosexuality, and the Controversy over Corydon......Page 213
10. Michel Foucault's Sexuality and the History of Homosexuality in France......Page 236
B......Page 254
C......Page 255
F......Page 256
H......Page 257
L......Page 258
M......Page 259
O......Page 260
R......Page 261
S......Page 262
V......Page 263
Z......Page 264