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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 in 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.
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 in 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.
In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and
encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafes, dancehalls,
and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding
an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance
of "individuals of both sexes with depraved morals" in these
spaces. Andrew Israel Ross's illuminating study, Public City/Public
Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and
democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and
the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual
culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the
development of gay and lesbian subcultures. Public City/Public Sex
examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable
outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the
struggle to control sex in public and argues that it was the very
effort to police the city that created new opportunities for women
who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men. Placing public
sex at the center of urban history, Ross shows how those who used
public spaces played a central role in defining the way the city
was understood.
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