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Author Jackson, Julian, 1954-

Title Living in Arcadia : homosexuality, politics, and morality in France from the liberation to AIDS / Julian Jackson
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cambridge to Paris, 1978 -- "The French exception": gay historiography in France -- Arcadie: the unknown story -- Rethinking Arcadie -- The background -- Homosexuality in France from the revolution to Vichy -- Homosexuality and the revolution -- Regulating sexual disorder in the nineteenth century -- French variations -- Paris as Sodom -- Homosexuality in belle-époque Paris -- The interwar years: talking about homosexuality -- The shadow of the occupation, 1942-1955 -- Blame it on Gide -- Fascinating fascism: sleeping with the enemy -- Liberation: "beautiful babies" and unruly youths -- Moral order -- Freedom in clandestinity: the "civilization of the pissotières" -- Fighting the Puritans: futur -- Et in Arcadia ego, 1954-1968 -- Beginnings, 1954-1956 -- Losing a vocation, 1922-1945 -- Finding a vocation, 1946-1952 -- Young man in a hurry, 1953 -- Recruiting support: treason of the clerks, 1954 -- Teething troubles I: quarrel with Amsterdam, 1955-1956 -- Teething troubles II: "a danger to youth" 1955-1956 -- Survival, 1956-1968 -- Living in the catacombs, 1956-1957 -- Putting down roots, 1957-1959 -- A new recruit: Daniel Guérin -- "Social scourge" 1960 -- Arcadie embattled, 1960-1964 -- Arcadie becalmed, 1964-1968 -- The vision of Arcadie: homosexuality and ethics -- The homophile international -- Escaping the shadow of Gide -- Science and history -- "Permanent and diffuse revolution" -- The politics of dignity -- Ethics and authenticity: assuming one's condition -- The secret garden -- Living in Arcadie -- A spiritual family -- Finding Arcadie -- Arriving at Arcadie -- The provincial desert -- Building a library I -- Building a library II -- The club -- "La bonne parole" I: preaching the Arcadian life -- "La bonne parole" II: living the Arcadian life -- Arcadie contested, 1968-1982 -- The deluge, 1968-1972 -- Sexual revolutions -- The revolution and sex -- Monks in the dark ages? -- "Homosexuality, this painful problem" -- The rise and fall of Fhar -- The "toads of Arcadie" -- The Arcadie years, 1973-1978 -- Recognition at last -- The "Arcadian people" -- Competitors I: the sex explosion -- Competitors II: the political explosion -- The Giscardian moment -- Splendors and miseries of homosexual life -- Political openings -- Coming out, Arcadie style: "living without a mask" -- The pedophile moment -- Living in the ghetto: gay island or sad asylum? -- The end, 1979-1982 -- Apotheosis: May 1979 -- Realignments on the left -- Arcadie misses the boat -- The last days -- Reactions -- Conclusion -- End of an era -- The Arcadian diaspora -- All Arcadians now?
Summary In Paris in 1954, a young man named André Baudry founded Arcadie, an organization for 'homophiles' that would become the largest of its kind that has ever existed in France, lasting nearly 30 years. Here, Jackson offers an original account of the history of homosexuality in modern France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index
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Subject Baudry, André
SUBJECT Baudry, André fast
Subject Homosexuality -- France -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Homosexuality
France
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226389288
0226389286