Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Andrew Israel Ross

Book Overview

In the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, caf s, dancehalls, and even public urinals. However, complaints also arose regarding an apparent increase in public sexual activity, and the appearance of "individuals of both sexes with depraved morals" in these spaces. Andrew Israel Ross's illuminating study, Public City/Public Sex, chronicles the tension between the embourgeoisement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439914893
• ISBN13: 9781439914892
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"