Histories of French Sexuality

From the Enlightenment to the Present

Nina Kushner, Andrew Israel Ross (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2023
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3549-7 (ISBN)

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Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, Histories of French Sexuality reveals how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, and otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history.

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 of 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.

Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Andrew Israel Ross is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Andrew Israel Ross and Nina Kushner
1. Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race, and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603–1791
Jennifer J. Davis
2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata: Revisiting the Cadière-Girard Affair of 1730
Cathy McClive
3. Unchaste Women: Sexuality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Nina Kushner
4. Domesticating Pleasure: The Sexual Politics of the French Enlightenment
Lisa Jane Graham
5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900
Andrew Israel Ross
6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Jessie Hewitt
7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909
Sarah Horowitz
8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu
Michelle K. Rhoades
9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal
Jennifer Anne Boittin
10. Sex before 1968: Adolescence and the Presse Féminine
Sarah Fishman
11. Creating Lesbian Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s
Tamara Chaplin
Afterword
Robert A. Nye
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2023
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-3549-5 / 1496235495
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3549-7 / 9781496235497
Zustand	Neuware