Through the Keyhole - A History of Sex, Space and Public Modesty in Modern France (Paperback)

In 1857, a group of young people who had participated in an orgy in a private mansion was sentenced for contempt of public decency (outrage public a la pudeur) because a voyeur was able to watch them through a keyhole. For Marcela Iacub, the crux of such cases hinges on where the public ends and the private begins, and what one can reveal, and what one ought to hide. Today, the term pudeur has disappeared from the French penal code to be replaced by Sex. But, far from being an epic story of hard-won freedom, Iacub demonstrates that the transformation techniques used by the State in the last two centuries have rendered sexuality into a spectacle and have conditioned our spaces, our clothes, our comportment and even some of our mental illnesses. In so doing, Iacub offers us a politico-legal history of the gaze. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2016
Authors:	Marcela Iacub
Translators:	Vinay Swamy
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-78499-152-4
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-78499-152-X
Barcode:	9781784991524

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