Description
Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.
Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *
Table of ContentsForeword / Barry Adam
Preface
Introduction
1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy
2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake
3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician
4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual
5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City Hall
Conclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?
Notes
References
Index
