Through the keyhole: A history of sex, space and public modesty in modern France

✍ Scribed by Marcela Iacub

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Translator’s foreword
Introduction: What is a history of public modesty?
Part I: Constructing and demolishing the wall of modesty
The construction of the wall of modesty
The conquest of private space by public space
The invention of interior publicity
The demolition of the wall of modesty and the new fate of Article 330
Part II: The visual liberation of public spaces
The wars of the chaste nude
The publicity of unchaste sexuality
Part III: The politics of spaces in the era of Sex
The new criminal law on sexuality
The scenography of Sex
Perverts and the dissolute
Works cited
Index

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