{"product_id":"histories-of-french-sexuality-9781496235497","title":"Histories of French Sexuality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovering 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These articles illustrate maturity and diversity in an exciting field of history. They employ an exemplary variety of sources to investigate the many ways in which sexuality is embedded in the fabric of public as well as private life.”—Jeffrey Merrick, author of \u003ci\u003eSodomy in Eighteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This wonderful collection of imaginatively researched essays demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that sex matters in history. While the focus is on France, the book’s temporal and thematic breadth demonstrates that any empirically rigorous investigation of sexual mores, scandal, regulation, and public or private expressions of desire can lead us to new insights about the structure and rules of politics, the mechanisms of racial policy and colonial rule, and the role of the media in establishing or enforcing sexual identities and taboos. We are introduced to colonists in the Americas and Africa, to Parisian flâneurs, to various ‘unchaste women’ and their paramours, and to sexual pioneers of the digital age. Collectively, the authors take us on a journey that will inspire future research in French history and beyond.”—Annette F. Timm, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGender, Sex, and the Shaping of Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The more senior scholars in this collection are leading voices in the history of French sexuality and its many connections with related developments in social, cultural, and gender relations from the Old Regime onward. And the younger historians here develop new, striking perspectives, some of them derived from recent efforts among activists to redefine sexual manners and mores within a rapidly changing demographic landscape in the Western world. This work richly deserves the attention of a broad anglophone audience.”—James Smith Allen, author of \u003ci\u003eA Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Israel Ross and Nina Kushner\u003cbr\u003e 1. Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race, and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603–1791\u003cbr\u003e Jennifer J. Davis\u003cbr\u003e 2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata: Revisiting the Cadière-Girard Affair of 1730\u003cbr\u003e Cathy McClive\u003cbr\u003e 3. Unchaste Women: Sexuality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Nina Kushner\u003cbr\u003e 4. Domesticating Pleasure: The Sexual Politics of the French Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Jane Graham\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Israel Ross\u003cbr\u003e 6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003e Jessie Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Horowitz\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu\u003cbr\u003e Michelle K. Rhoades\u003cbr\u003e 9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal\u003cbr\u003e Jennifer Anne Boittin\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sex before 1968: Adolescence and the Presse Féminine\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Fishman\u003cbr\u003e 11. Creating Lesbian Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e Tamara Chaplin\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Robert A. Nye\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409244889431,"sku":"9781496235497","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496235497.jpg?v=1730506122","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/histories-of-french-sexuality-9781496235497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}