Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France: A Documentary History
Jeffrey Merrick, "Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France: A Documentary History"
English | ISBN: 0271083352 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0271083352 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In this book, Jeffrey Merrick brings together a rich array of primary-source documents―many of which are published or translated here for the first time―that depict in detail the policing of same-sex populations in eighteenth-century France and the ways in which Parisians regarded what they called sodomy or pederasty and tribadism. Taken together, these documents suggest that male and female same-sex relations played a more visible public role in Enlightenment-era society than was previously believed.
The translated and annotated sources included here show how robust the same-sex subculture was in eighteenth-century Paris, as well as how widespread the policing of sodomy was at the time. Part 1 includes archival police records from the 1720s to the 1780s that show how the police attempted to manage sodomitical activity through surveillance and repression; part 2 includes excerpts from treatises and encyclopedias, published
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