Histories Of French Sexuality

Author : Andrew Israel Ross,Nina Kushner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496236258

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Histories of French Sexuality by Andrew Israel Ross,Nina Kushner Pdf

Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially scholars of French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the past and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader discipline of history. The topics include early empire-building, religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the modern self, medicine, urbanization, decolonization, the social world of postwar France, and the rise of modern and social media.

Author : Robert Wheaton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216695

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Family and Sexuality in French History by Robert Wheaton Pdf

These essays collectively cover a stretch of French history from Medieval times to the twentieth century, deploying a wide variety of analytical techniques in an effort to understand people's perceptions of their own lives as well as the institutional and cultural factors affecting their decisions.

Author : Katherine Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769891

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The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance by Katherine Crawford Pdf

An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.

Author : Nina Kushner,Andrew Israel Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496236265

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Histories of French Sexuality by Nina Kushner,Andrew Israel Ross Pdf

Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially scholars of French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the past and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader discipline of history. The topics include early empire-building, religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the modern self, medicine, urbanization, decolonization, the social world of postwar France, and the rise of modern and social media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968283

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Sexing Political Culture in the History of France by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780679724698

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The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault Pdf

Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780525565413

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Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault Pdf

The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault made an indelible impact on Western thought. The first three volumes in his History of Sexuality—which trace cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing that it has been profoundly shaped by the power structures applied to it—constitute some of Foucault’s most important work. This fourth volume posits that the origins of totalitarian self-surveillance began with the Christian practice of confession. The manuscript had long been secreted away, in accordance with Foucault’s stated wish that there be no posthumous publication of his unpublished work. With the sale of the Foucault archives in 2013, Foucault’s nephew felt that the time had come to publish this final volume in Foucault’s seminal history. Philosophically, it is a chapter in his hermeneutics of the desiring subject. Historically, it focuses on the remodeling of subjectivity carried out by the early Christian Fathers, who set out to transform the classical Logos of truthful human discourse into a theologos—the divine Word of a pure sovereign. What did God will in the matter of righteous sexual practice? Foucault parses out the logic of the various responses proffered by theologians over the centuries, culminating with Saint Augustine’s fascinating discussion of the libido. Sweeping and deeply personal, Confessions of the Flesh is a tour de force from a philosophical master

Author : Jeffrey Merrick,Michael Sibalis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317992585

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Homosexuality in French History and Culture by Jeffrey Merrick,Michael Sibalis Pdf

Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism! Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, from the essays of Michel de Montaigne to pride parades in contemporary Paris. This groundbreaking book documents the ways homosexuality has been named, experienced, regulated, understood, and imagined. During these centuries, homosexuality has been stigmatized as a sin, crime, or disease, and denounced as a threat to social order and national identity. Yet the rhetoric of condemnation has always co-existed with the reality of toleration. This groundbreaking collection analyzes the ways in which persecutions, as well as differences within minority sexual subcultures, have highlighted stereotypes and anxieties about class and age differences, gendered roles, and separatism. Homosexuality in French History and Culture offers historical and literary studies based on a wide variety of sources, including: novels, plays, and poetry gossip and satires police reports medical texts travel literature newspapers and periodicals memoirs Homosexuality in French History and Culture combines fresh, creative re-interpretation of familiar texts with exciting new explorations of neglected historical episodes and cultures. It is a landmark of meticulous scholarship and rigorous theoretical analysis, and a vital resource for scholars of queer theory, French history and culture, and literary criticism.

Author : Annette F. Timm,Joshua A. Sanborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472583826

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Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe by Annette F. Timm,Joshua A. Sanborn Pdf

Through a blend of history and historiography, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides a clear and concise introduction to gender history in the region. The detailed examples and engaging language make this a useful overview for students not only of gender history, but also of European history more widely, as considerations of gender illuminate our understanding of historical change and individual experience. In six thematic chapters that cover democracy and capitalism, imperialism and war, the authors explain how gender roles were socially constructed and how they influenced political and economic developments during the period. This new edition has been thoroughly re-edited and expanded to take account of ongoing methodological innovation and recent scholarship in the field. The book also includes a brand new chapter on sexuality in the 21st century and extended material on: · Scandinavia · The Mediterranean · Alternative Sexualities · Women's history and femininity Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe is a key text for all students of gender history and the history of modern Europe in general.

Author : Kara M. French
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469662152

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Against Sex by Kara M. French Pdf

How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in the antebellum United States. French considers three groups of Americans—Shakers, Catholic priests and nuns, and followers of sexual reformer Sylvester Graham—whose sexual abstinence provoked almost as much social, moral, and political concern as the idea of sexual excess. Examining private diaries and letters, visual culture and material artifacts, and a range of published works, French reveals how people practicing sexual restraint became objects of fascination, ridicule, and even violence in nineteenth-century American culture. Against Sex makes clear that in assessing the history of sexuality, an expansive view of sexual practice that includes abstinence and restraint can shed important new light on histories of society, culture, and politics.

Author : Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226741093

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Parité! by Joan Wallach Scott Pdf

France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In Parité! Joan Wallach Scott shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics. During the 1990s, le mouvement pour la parité successfully campaigned for women's inclusion in elective office with an argument that is unprecedented in the annals of feminism. The paritaristes insisted that if the abstract individual were thought of as sexed, then sexual difference would no longer be a relevant consideration in politics. Scott insists that this argument was neither essentialist nor separatist; it was not about women's special qualities or interests. Instead, parité was rigorously universalist—and for that reason was both misunderstood and a source of heated debate.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : CNIB
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:175139110

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The History of Sexuality [sound Recording] : Vol. I, An Introduction by Michel Foucault Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307819277

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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2 by Michel Foucault Pdf

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Use of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?

Author : Sarah Toulalan,Kate Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415472371

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The Routledge History of Sex and the Body by Sarah Toulalan,Kate Fisher Pdf

The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book examines the current scholarship and looks towards future directions across the field. The volume is divided into fourteen thematic chapters, which are split into two chronological sections 1500 - 1750 and 1750 to present day. Focusing on the history of sexuality and the body in the West but also interactions with a broader globe, these thematic chapters survey the major areas of debate and discussion. Covering themes such as science, identity, the gaze, courtship, reproduction, sexual violence and the importance of race, the volume offers a comprehensive view of the history of sex and the body. The book concludes with an afterword in which the reader is invited to consider some of the 'tensions, problems and areas deserving further scrutiny'. Including contributors renowned in their field of expertise, this ground-breaking collection is essential reading for all those interested in the history of sexuality and the body.

Author : Sarah Fishman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190248628

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From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution by Sarah Fishman Pdf

From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution explores the factors that led to such radical changes in French notions of gender roles, family structures, and sexuality. Sarah Fishman follows French women's path toward emancipation from winning suffrage in 1945 to the social movements of 1960s, painting a broad view of shifting habits and ideas about love, courtship, sex, marriage, parenting, childhood, and adolescence. She surveys a wide range of sources, including juvenile court cases, inexpensive guidebooks on marriage and childbirth, and popular magazines--Marie Claire and Elle most notably, where iconic columnists such as Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Ségal answered readers' letters and dispensed intimate and inspirational advice to millions of women.