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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813536003321

Autore

Corriveau Patrice <1974->

Titolo

Judging homosexuals : a history of gay persecution in Quebec and France / / Patrice Corriveau ; translated by Kathe Roth ; with a foreword by Barry Adam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-05428-0

9786613054289

0-7748-1722-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Sexuality studies, , 1706-9947

Altri autori (Persone)

RothKathe

Disciplina

306.766

Soggetti

Homosexuality - Social aspects - Quebec (Province) - History

Homosexuality - Social aspects - France - History

Gays - Legal status, laws, etc - Quebec (Province) - History

Gays - Legal status, laws, etc - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: La repression des homosexuels au Quebec et en France.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy -- 2. Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake -- 3. British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician -- 4. Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual -- 5. 1970's to the Present: From Prison to City Hall.

Sommario/riassunto

In 2004, the first same-sex couple legally married in Quebec. How did homosexuality � an act that had for centuries been defined as abominable and criminal � come to be sanctioned by law? Judging Homosexuals finds answers in a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec, places that share a common culture but have diverging legal traditions. In both settings, Patrice Corriveau explores how various groups � family and clergy, doctors and jurists � tried to manage people who were defined in turn as sinners, as criminals, as inverts, and as citizens to be protected by law. By bringing to light the various discourses that have over time supported the



control and persecution of individual homoerotic behaviour in France and Quebec, this book makes the case that when it came to managing sexuality, the law helped construct the crime.