A01=Carolyn J. Dean
Author_Carolyn J. Dean
bodily integrity
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cultural studies
demographic studies
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first world war
france
french studies
gay male sexuality
gender and sexuality
gender studies
great war
homosexuality
interwar france
lesbian sexuality
lgbtq
lgbtq community
lgbtqia
medical psychology
medical treatises
perversion
political action
popular psychology
porn
pornography
sex and sexuality
sexuality
social body
social perceptions
studies on the history of society and culture series
virility
Product details
- ISBN 9780520219953
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Dean's provocative work demonstrates the importance of this concept of bodily integrity in France and shows how it was ultimately used to define first-class citizenship. Dean presents fresh historical material - including novels and medical treatises - to show how fantasies about the body-violating qualities of homosexuality and pornography informed social perceptions and political action. Although she focuses on the period from 1890 to 1945, Dean also establishes the relevance of these ideas to current preoccupations with pornography and sexuality in the United States.
Carolyn J. Dean is Professor of History at Brown University and author of The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject (1992) and Sexuality and Modern Western Culture (1996).
