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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780084703321

Autore

Dean Carolyn J (Carolyn Janice), <1960->

Titolo

The frail social body [[electronic resource] ] : pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France / / Carolyn J. Dean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000

ISBN

0-520-92348-0

1-59734-619-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 36

Disciplina

306.76/6/0944

Soggetti

Pornography - France

Homosexuality - France

Sex (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.