Frail Social Body Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France

Name: Frail Social Body Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France
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ISBN: 9780520219953

ISBN-10: 0520219953

ISBN-13: 9780520219953

Edition: 2000

Authors: Carolyn J. Dean

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Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there--journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others--worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct the "bodily integrity" of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography. Dean's provocative work demonstrates the importance of this concept of bodily integrity in France and shows how it was ultimately used to define first-class citizenship. Dean presents fresh historical material--including novels and medical treatises--to show how fantasies about the body-violating…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/16/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 275
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Pornography and Perversion



Pornography, Literature, and the Redemption of Virility



The Great War, Pornography, and the Violated Social Body



The Making of Gay Male Sexuality



The Making of Lesbian Sexuality


Epilogue


Select Bibliography


Index