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Examine how a community of support in Nineteenth-Century Paris
became a blueprint for modern sexual identity! A unique social
history, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in
Nineteenth-Century Paris is a valuable addition to the growing
field of gay and lesbian studies. The book examines the interaction
between the city's male homosexual subculture and Parisian
authority figures who attempted to maintain political and social
order during the early years of the French Third Republic by using
laws against public indecency and sexual assault to treat same-sex
sexuality as a crime. Faced with a constant cycle of surveillance,
harassment, and arrest, the city's gay men survived the hostile
urban environment by forming a community of support that had a
widespread and lasting influence on the development of modern
sexual identities. Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual
Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is based on a statistical
analysis of more than 800 working-class and middle-class men who
were arrested or investigated by Parisian police between 1873 and
1879. Their stories, presented through long and short case studies,
represent nearly 2,000 names recorded by police in Pederasts and
Others, a ledger detailing the arrests of male homosexuals for
public offenses against decency and other minor offenses. (The term
pederast identified those suspected of same-sex sexual activity,
not the modern definition that indicates homosexual relations with
a minor.) The ledger entries reveal specific habits, attitudes,
values, and characteristics about these men that set them apartthe
same traits that identified them as part of a community based on
their behavior and relationships. Pederasts and Others: Urban
Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines:
the forces of authority the laws regarding same-sex sexual behavior
the role of the police the role of the magistrates the role of the
doctors the common characteristics of the city's male homosexual
subculture the sexual behaviors of the Paris underground the
geography of the subculture and takes an expanded look at three
case studies: A Decadent Aristocrat and A Delinquent Boy Pederasts,
Prostitutes, and Pickpockets Love and Death in Gay Paris Pederasts
and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century
Paris also includes tables, appendices, and maps linked to
statistical data. The book is an essential resource for historians,
sociologists, sexologists, criminologists, and other scholars
working in the fields of gay and lesbian studies, urban studies,
social and cultural history, and French history.
Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonte ) by Bakary Diallo is one of
the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an
African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well
as a unique and invaluable historical document about colonialism
and Africa's role in the Great War. Lamine Senghor's The Rape of a
Country ( La Violation d'un pays ) is another pioneering French
work by a Senegalese veteran of World War I, but one that offers a
stark contrast to Strength and Goodness . Both are made available
for the first time in English in this edition, complete with a
glossary of terms and a general historical introduction. The
centennial of World War I is an ideal moment to present Strength
and Goodness and The Rape of a Country to a wider, English-reading
public. Until recently, Africa's role in the war has been neglected
by historians and largely forgotten by the general public.
Euro-centric versions of the war still predominate in popular
culture, Many historians, however, now insist that African
participation in the 1914-18 War is a large part of what made that
conflict a world war.
Examine how a community of support in Nineteenth-Century Paris
became a blueprint for modern sexual identity! A unique social
history, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in
Nineteenth-Century Paris is a valuable addition to the growing
field of gay and lesbian studies. The book examines the interaction
between the city's male homosexual subculture and Parisian
authority figures who attempted to maintain political and social
order during the early years of the French Third Republic by using
laws against public indecency and sexual assault to treat same-sex
sexuality as a crime. Faced with a constant cycle of surveillance,
harassment, and arrest, the city's gay men survived the hostile
urban environment by forming a community of support that had a
widespread and lasting influence on the development of modern
sexual identities. Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual
Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is based on a statistical
analysis of more than 800 working-class and middle-class men who
were arrested or investigated by Parisian police between 1873 and
1879. Their stories, presented through long and short case studies,
represent nearly 2,000 names recorded by police in Pederasts and
Others, a ledger detailing the arrests of male homosexuals for
public offenses against decency and other minor offenses. (The term
pederast identified those suspected of same-sex sexual activity,
not the modern definition that indicates homosexual relations with
a minor.) The ledger entries reveal specific habits, attitudes,
values, and characteristics about these men that set them apartthe
same traits that identified them as part of a community based on
their behavior and relationships. Pederasts and Others: Urban
Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines:
the forces of authority the laws regarding same-sex sexual behavior
the role of the police the role of the magistrates the role of the
doctors the common characteristics of the city's male homosexual
subculture the sexual behaviors of the Paris underground the
geography of the subculture and takes an expanded look at three
case studies: A Decadent Aristocrat and A Delinquent Boy Pederasts,
Prostitutes, and Pickpockets Love and Death in Gay Paris Pederasts
and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century
Paris also includes tables, appendices, and maps linked to
statistical data. The book is an essential resource for historians,
sociologists, sexologists, criminologists, and other scholars
working in the fields of gay and lesbian studies, urban studies,
social and cultural history, and French history.
In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by
lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers
of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians"
and described women as "femmes damnees," with "disordered souls"
suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later,
lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that
extraordinarily creative period at the turn of the 19th and 20th
centuries which became known as the Belle Epoque. Lesbian
Decadence, now available in English for the first time, provides a
new analysis and synthesis of the depiction of lesbianism as a
social phenomenon and a symptom of social malaise as well as a
fantasy in that most vibrant place and period in history. In this
newly translated work, praised by leading critics as
"authoritative," "stunning," and "a marvel of elegance and
erudition," Nicole G. Albert analyzes and synthesizes an engagingly
rich sweep of historical representations of the lesbian mystique in
art and literature. Albert contrasts these visions to moralists'
abrupt condemnations of "the lesbian vice," as well as the newly
emerging psychiatric establishment's medical fury and their
obsession on cataloging and classifying symptoms of "inversion" or
"perversion" in order to cure these "unbalanced creatures of love."
Lesbian Decadence combines literary, artistic, and historical
analysis of sources from the mainstream to the rare, from scholarly
studies to popular culture. The English translation provides a core
reference/text for those interested in the Decadent movement, in
literary history, in French history and social history. It is well
suited for courses in gender studies, women's studies, LGBT
history, and lesbianism in literature, history, and art.
"Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart;
whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must
fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own
nature. It's fate that creates us and guides us throughout our
lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless,
foolish, and reckless!" In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian
aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the novelist Emile
Zola. In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his
sexual experiences with other men-including his seduction as a
teenager by one of his father's friends and his first love affair,
with a sergeant during his military service-as well as his
"extraordinary" personality. Judging it too controversial, Zola
gave it to a young doctor, who in 1896 published a censored version
in a medical study on sexual inversion, as homosexuality was then
known. When the Italian came across this book, he was shocked to
discover how his life story had been distorted. In protest, he
wrote a long, daring, and unapologetic letter to the doctor
defending his right to love and to live as he wished. This book is
the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this
remarkable queer autobiography. Its text is based on the recently
discovered manuscript of the Italian's letter to the doctor. It
also features an introduction tracing the textual history of the
documents, analytical essays, and additional materials that help
place the work in its historical context. Offering a striking
glimpse of gay life in Europe in the late nineteenth century, The
Italian Invert brings to light the powerful voice of a young man
who forthrightly expressed his desires and eloquently affirmed his
right to pleasure.
Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonte ) by Bakary Diallo is one of
the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an
African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well
as a unique and invaluable historical document about colonialism
and Africa's role in the Great War. Lamine Senghor's The Rape of a
Country ( La Violation d'un pays ) is another pioneering French
work by a Senegalese veteran of World War I, but one that offers a
stark contrast to Strength and Goodness . Both are made available
for the first time in English in this edition, complete with a
glossary of terms and a general historical introduction. The
centennial of World War I is an ideal moment to present Strength
and Goodness and The Rape of a Country to a wider, English-reading
public. Until recently, Africa's role in the war has been neglected
by historians and largely forgotten by the general public.
Euro-centric versions of the war still predominate in popular
culture, Many historians, however, now insist that African
participation in the 1914-18 War is a large part of what made that
conflict a world war.
"Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart;
whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must
fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own
nature. It's fate that creates us and guides us throughout our
lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless,
foolish, and reckless!" In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian
aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the novelist Emile
Zola. In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his
sexual experiences with other men-including his seduction as a
teenager by one of his father's friends and his first love affair,
with a sergeant during his military service-as well as his
"extraordinary" personality. Judging it too controversial, Zola
gave it to a young doctor, who in 1896 published a censored version
in a medical study on sexual inversion, as homosexuality was then
known. When the Italian came across this book, he was shocked to
discover how his life story had been distorted. In protest, he
wrote a long, daring, and unapologetic letter to the doctor
defending his right to love and to live as he wished. This book is
the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this
remarkable queer autobiography. Its text is based on the recently
discovered manuscript of the Italian's letter to the doctor. It
also features an introduction tracing the textual history of the
documents, analytical essays, and additional materials that help
place the work in its historical context. Offering a striking
glimpse of gay life in Europe in the late nineteenth century, The
Italian Invert brings to light the powerful voice of a young man
who forthrightly expressed his desires and eloquently affirmed his
right to pleasure.
In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by
lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers
of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians"
and described women as "femmes damnees," with "disordered souls"
suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later,
lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that
extraordinarily creative period at the turn of the 19th and 20th
centuries which became known as the Belle Epoque. Lesbian
Decadence, now available in English for the first time, provides a
new analysis and synthesis of the depiction of lesbianism as a
social phenomenon and a symptom of social malaise as well as a
fantasy in that most vibrant place and period in history. In this
newly translated work, praised by leading critics as
"authoritative," "stunning," and "a marvel of elegance and
erudition," Nicole G. Albert analyzes and synthesizes an engagingly
rich sweep of historical representations of the lesbian mystique in
art and literature. Albert contrasts these visions to moralists'
abrupt condemnations of "the lesbian vice," as well as the newly
emerging psychiatric establishment's medical fury and their
obsession on cataloging and classifying symptoms of "inversion" or
"perversion" in order to cure these "unbalanced creatures of love."
Lesbian Decadence combines literary, artistic, and historical
analysis of sources from the mainstream to the rare, from scholarly
studies to popular culture. The English translation provides a core
reference/text for those interested in the Decadent movement, in
literary history, in French history and social history. It is well
suited for courses in gender studies, women's studies, LGBT
history, and lesbianism in literature, history, and art.
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