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The frail social body : pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France
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ISBN: 0520219953 9780520219953 Year: 2000 Volume: 36 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press

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"In the aftermath of the violence and trauma experienced by France during World War I, French cultural critics - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate the social body, one they now perceived to be fragile and porous. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct the "bodily integrity" of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography. Dean's work demonstrates the importance of this concept of bodily integrity in France and shows how it was ultimately used to define first-class citizenship."--Jacket.

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