The frail social body : pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France /
"In the aftermath of the violence and trauma experienced by France during World War I, French cultural critics - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate the social body, one they now perceived to be fragile and porous. Carolyn J. Dean shows how th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
36. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "In the aftermath of the violence and trauma experienced by France during World War I, French cultural critics - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate the social body, one they now perceived to be fragile and porous. 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 work demonstrates the importance of this concept of bodily integrity in France and shows how it was ultimately used to define first-class citizenship."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 263 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520219953 9780520219953 |