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__Histories of French Sexuality__ contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially scholars in French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in __Histories of French Sexuality__ show how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the past and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader discipline of history. The topics include early empire-building, religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the modern self, medicine, urbanization, deco

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Author

Nina Kushner;Andrew Israel Ross;,Andrew Israel Ross

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496236265

Category

nonfiction