Policing same-sex relations in eighteenth-century Paris: archival voices from 1785

Merrick, Jeffrey

Policing same-sex relations in eighteenth-century Paris: archival voices from 1785

Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into English by Jeffrey Merrick, allow us to hear th...

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Contributors:	Merrick, Jeffrey (Editor)
Format:	Electronic Book
Language:	Undetermined language
Check availability:	HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:	Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published:	[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] Penn State University Press 2024
In:	Year: 2024
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:	B Paris / Homosexuality / Pederasty / Sodomy / Police report / Geschichte 1785 / Asexuality (Sexual orientation) / Bisexuality / Sexual identity / Heterosexuality / Intersexuality / Non-binary gender / Sexual behavior / Sexual orientation / Transsexualism / Girard, René 1923-2015
IxTheo Classification:	TJ Modern history
Further subjects:	B Commentary B Law B Place qualifiers B Time period qualifiers B Europe B Systems of law: Roman law B Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions B History B Spring B 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 B History: specific events and topics B Western Europe B c 1700 to c 1709 B Systems of law B History and Archaeology B Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750 B France B c 1500 onwards to present day B Jurisprudence and general issues
Online Access:	Volltext (kostenfrei) Volltext (kostenfrei)
Rights Information:	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Parallel Edition:	Non-electronic