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Author:

Ross, Andrew Israel, 1983- author.

Title:

Public city/public sex : homosexuality, prostitution, and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris / Andrew Israel Ross.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Male homosexuality--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Prostitution--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Public sex--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
City and town life--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
City planning--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Social control--Paris--Paris--History--19th century.
Paris (France)--Social conditions--19th century.
Paris (France)--Social policy.
City and town life.
City planning.
Male homosexuality.
Prostitution.
Public sex.
Social conditions.
Social control.
Social policy.
France--Paris.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Regulation, the maison de tolerance, and the signs of sex -- Public hygiene, public sex, and public urinals -- On prostitutes and pederasts -- Soliciting in the city : constructing a public sexual culture -- Public sphere/public sex -- Selling the pleasures of Paris.

Summary:

"In the nineteenth century, Paris was redesigned in ways intended to exercise social control over its citizens. This effort to control certain kinds of interactions, however, created new spaces that female prostitutes and men who sought sex with other men could use for public sex"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Sexuality studies

ISBN:

1439914893
9781439914892
1439914885
9781439914885

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1082292714

LCCN:

2018054722

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)