| Description |
1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Modern French History |
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Studies in modern French history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Through the keyhole; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Translator's foreword; Introduction: What is a history of public modesty?; Part I: Constructing and demolishing the wall of modesty; 1 The construction of the wall of modesty; 2 The conquest of private space by public space; 3 The invention of interior publicity; 4 The demolition of the wall of modesty and the new fate of Article 330; Part II: The visual liberation of public spaces; 5 The wars of the chaste nude; 6 The publicity of unchaste sexuality; Part III: The politics of spaces in the era of Sex |
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7 The new criminal law on sexuality8 The scenography of Sex; 9 Perverts and the dissolute; Works cited; Index |
| Summary |
In 1857, a group of young people who had participated in an orgy in a private mansion was sentenced for contempt of public decency (outrage public à la pudeur) because a voyeur was able to watch them through a keyhole. For Marcela Iacub, the crux of such cases hinges on where the public ends and the private begins, and what one can reveal and what one ought to hide. Today, the pudeur has disappeared from the French penal code to be replaced by Sex. But, far from being an epic story of hard-won freedom, Iacub demonstrates that the transformation techniques used by the State in the last two cent |
| Analysis |
French Penal Code of 1810 |
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chaste nudity |
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gaze |
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interior publicity |
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keyhole |
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liability |
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limit visibility |
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live nudity |
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private spaces |
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public space |
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publicity |
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rules for sex |
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sexual exhibitionism |
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unchaste sexuality |
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wall of modesty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-218) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex and law -- France -- History
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Indecent exposure -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Indecent exposure -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Indecent exposure -- France -- History -- 21st century
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Social & Cultural History.
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France.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Indecent exposure
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Sex and law
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Swamy, Vinay
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| LC no. |
2016449685 |
| ISBN |
9781784997670 |
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1784997676 |
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1784998117 |
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9781784998110 |
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