ISBN:
0520219953
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 263 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies on the history of society and culture 36
Series Statement:
Studies on the History of Society and Culture Ser. v.36
Parallel Title:
Print version The Frail Social Body : Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France
DDC:
306.76/6/0944
Keywords:
Pornography
;
Sex (Psychology)
;
Homosexuality
;
Homosexuality ; France
;
Pornography ; France
;
Sex (Psychology)
;
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pornography and Perversion; 2. Pornography, Literature, and the Redemption of Virility; 3. The Great War, Pornography, and the Violated Social Body; 4. The Making of Gay Male Sexuality; 5. The Making of Lesbian Sexuality; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-251) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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