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Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France - A Documentary History (Paperback)
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Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France - A Documentary History (Paperback)
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In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of
primary-source documents—many of which are published or
translated here for the first time—that depict in detail the
policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and
the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or
pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, these documents suggest
that male and female same-sex relations played a more visible
public role in Enlightenment-era society than was previously
believed. The translated and annotated sources included here show
how robust the same-sex subculture was in eighteenth-century Paris,
as well as how widespread the policing of sodomy was at the time.
Part 1 includes archival police records from the 1720s to the 1780s
that show how the police attempted to manage sodomitical activity
through surveillance and repression; part 2 includes excerpts from
treatises and encyclopedias, published nouvelles (collections of
news) and libelles (libelous writings), fictive portrayals, and
Enlightenment treatments of the topic that include calls for legal
reform. Together these sources show how contemporaries understood
same-sex relations in multiple contexts and cultures, including
their own. The resulting volume is an unprecedented look at the
role of same-sex relations in the culture and society of the era.
The product of years of archival research curated, translated, and
annotated by a premier expert in the field, Sodomites, Pederasts,
and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France provides a foundational
primary text for the study and teaching of the history of
sexuality.
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