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Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France

A Documentary History

Jeffrey Merrick (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2021
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-08336-0 (ISBN)
49,65 inkl. MwSt
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.

Jeffrey Merrick is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of Order and Disorder Under the Ancien Régime and coeditor of Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France, the latter also published by Penn State University Press.

Contents

Preface List of Abbreviations Glossary IntroductionPart I: Surveillance of the Parisian SubcultureA. Reports from the Archives of the BastilleB. Reports of the Watch/Guard and the CommissairesC. Reports of the Swiss Guard in the Champs-Élysées and the CommissairesD. Reports of Commissaires Foucault and DesormeauxPart II: Representations of Same-Sex RelationsE. Gossip and SlanderF. TraditionG. EnlightenmentH. FictionsNotesRecommended ReadingIndex

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 1 Maps
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 472 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-271-08336-0 / 0271083360
ISBN-13 978-0-271-08336-0 / 9780271083360
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