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) |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Gay men -- France -- Biography
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Male homosexuality -- France -- Case studies
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Gay men -- France -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
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Gay men
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Male homosexuality
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France
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Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Case studies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Études de cas.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Peniston, William A., 1959-
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Erber, Nancy, 1951-
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ISBN |
9780803215733 |
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0803215738 |
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9780803229709 |
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0803229704 |
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