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The frail social body : pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France /
Following World War I, cultural critics in France worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. This study shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct the "bodily integrity" of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
36. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.