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Title Queer lives : men's autobiographies from nineteenth-century France / translated, edited, and with an introduction by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) : illustrations
Contents "Secret confessions of a Parisian" / by Arthur W, The Countess (1874) -- "Loves" / by Anonymous, in Dr. Ambroise Tardieu's A Medical and legal study on assaults against morality (1867) -- "Observation I" / by Anonymous, in Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and Dr. Valentin Magnan's Inversion of the sexual instinct (1881) -- "Autobiographical notes" / by Gustave L, in Dr. Paul Garnier's Madness in Paris (1890) -- "Autobiographical notes" / by Louis X, in Dr. Paul Garnier's The Fetishists (1895) -- "Letter to my parents" and "My autobiography" / by Antonio, in Dr. Andre Antheaume and Dr. Léon Parrot's A case of sexual inversion (1905) -- "Mental hermaphrodite and other autobiographical writings" / by Charles Double (1905) -- "The novel of an invert" / by Anonymous (1889, 1896)
Summary Gives readers a glimpse into the otherwise shrouded existences of gay men in nineteenth-century France. This work relates the experiences of a man about town, a cross-dressing entertainer, a troubled adolescent, and two fetishists, among others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270)
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Subject Gay men -- France -- Biography
Male homosexuality -- France -- Case studies
Gay men -- France -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Gay men
Male homosexuality
France
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
History
Autobiographies.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Études de cas.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Peniston, William A., 1959-
Erber, Nancy, 1951-
ISBN 9780803215733
0803215738
9780803229709
0803229704