Pederasts and Others : Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris

ISBN-13: 9781560234852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 276 str.

William A. Peniston

Opis

Peniston, manager of the library and archives at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, examines attempts to suppress sexual deviants during the 1870s in the aftermath of the Paris Commune. First he looks at the forces of authority, including the laws, the police, the magistrates, and the doctors. Then he explores such aspects of the subculture as its co

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Part I: The Forces of Authority
  
• Chapter 1. The Laws
  
• Chapter 2. The Police
  
• Chapter 3. The Police in the 1870s
  
• Chapter 4. The Magistrates
  
• Chapter 5. The Doctors
  
• Chapter 6. Summary
  
• Part II: The Subculture
  
• Chapter 7. Composition
  
• Chapter 8. Sexual Behavior
  
• Chapter 9. Social Relations
  
• Chapter 10. Geography
  
• Chapter 11. Summary
  
• Part III: Case Studies
  
• Chapter 12. A Decadent Aristocrat and a Delinquent Boy
  
• Chapter 13. Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets
  
• Chapter 14. Love and Death in Gay Paris
  
• Chapter 15. Summary
  
• Conclusion
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  

O autorze

Peniston, William