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The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France Volume 36

The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France Volume 36

Dean, Carolyn J.

Paperback

Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, Book 36

ArchaeologyFrench HistoryGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0520219953
ISBN13: 9780520219953
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 16 2000
Pages: 275
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
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. Dean's provocative work demonstrates the importance of this concept of bodily integrity in France and shows how it was ultimately used to define first-class citizenship.

Dean presents fresh historical material--including novels and medical treatises--to show how fantasies about the body-violating qualities of homosexuality and pornography informed social perceptions and political action. Although she focuses on the period from 1890 to 1945, Dean also establishes the relevance of these ideas to current preoccupations with pornography and sexuality in the United States.

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