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
Canade-Sautman, 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.
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