By John Dececco Phd,William Peniston
a special social background, Pederasts and Others: city tradition and Sexual identification in Nineteenth-Century Paris is a beneficial addition to the starting to be box of homosexual and lesbian reviews. The e-book examines the interplay among the city's male gay tradition and Parisian authority figures who tried to keep up political and social order throughout the early years of the French 3rd Republic by utilizing legislation opposed to public indecency and sexual attack to regard same-sex sexuality as against the law. confronted with a relentless cycle of surveillance, harassment, and arrest, the city's homosexual males survived the adverse city surroundings by way of forming a group of help that had a frequent and lasting impression at the improvement of recent sexual identities.
Pederasts and Others: city tradition and Sexual id in Nineteenth-Century Paris relies on a statistical research of greater than 800 working-class and middle-class males who have been arrested or investigated by way of Parisian police among 1873 and 1879. Their tales, offered via lengthy and brief case reports, symbolize approximately 2,000 names recorded by means of police in Pederasts and Others, a ledger detailing the arrests of male homosexuals for public offenses opposed to decency and different minor offenses. (The time period pederast pointed out these suspected of same-sex sexual intercourse, now not the fashionable definition that shows gay family with a minor.) The ledger entries exhibit particular behavior, attitudes, values, and features approximately those males that set them apartthe comparable qualities that pointed out them as a part of a neighborhood according to their habit and relationships.
Pederasts and Others: city tradition and Sexual id in Nineteenth-Century Paris examines:
- the forces of authority
- the legislation relating to same-sex sexual habit
- the position of the police
- the function of the magistrates
- the position of the medical professionals
- the typical features of the city's male gay way of life
- the sexual behaviors of the Paris underground
- the geography of the subculture
and takes an increased examine 3 case studies:
- A Decadent Aristocrat and A antisocial Boy
- Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets
- Love and loss of life in homosexual Paris
Pederasts and Others: city tradition and Sexual id in Nineteenth-Century Paris additionally comprises tables, appendices, and maps associated with statistical info. The publication is a necessary source for historians, sociologists, sexologists, criminologists, and different students operating within the fields of homosexual and lesbian reports, city reviews, social and cultural historical past, and French history.
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