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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Ross, Andrew Israel

Paperback

Series: Sexuality Studies

French HistoryGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1439914893
ISBN13: 9781439914892
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Published: Aug 8 2019
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, cafés, dancehalls, and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance of individuals of both sexes with depraved morals in these spaces. Andrew Israel Ross's illuminating study, Public City/Public Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement and democratization of urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris and the commercialization and commodification of a public sexual culture, the emergence of new sex districts, as well as the development of gay and lesbian subcultures.

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