Title: Judging homosexuals : a history of gay persecution in Quebec and France /
Authors: Corriveau, Patrice, 1974-; Roth, Käthe
Publisher: UBC Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Homosexuality Social aspects Québec (Province) History.; Homosexuality Social aspects France History.; Gays Legal status, laws, etc. Québec (Province) History.; Gays Legal status, laws, etc. France History.; Homosexualité Aspect social Québec (Province) Histoire.; Homosexualité Aspect social France Histoire.; Homosexuels Droit Québec (Province) Histoire.; Homosexuels Droit France Histoire.
Abstract: "In 2004, the first same-sex couple legally married in Quebec. How did homosexuality - an act that had for centuries been defined as abominable and criminal - come to be sanctioned by law? Judging Homosexuals finds answers in a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec, places that share a common culture but have diverging legal traditions. In both settings, Patrice Corriveau explores how various groups - family and clergy, doctors and jurists - tried to manage people who were defined in turn as sinners, as criminals, as inverts, and as citizens to be protected by law. By bringing to light the various discourses that have over time supported the control and persecution of individual homoerotic behaviour in France and Quebec, this book makes the case that when it came to managing sexuality, the law helped construct the crime"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Contents: 1. Ancient Greece to the seventeenth century : from pederasty to sodomy -- 2. The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British conquest : the sodomist and the stake -- 3. The British conquest to the late nineteenth century : from the sodomist to the invert, or from the priest to the physician -- 4. The late nineteenth century to the sexual revolution : from invert to homosexual -- 5. The 1970s to the present : from prison to city hall -- Conclusion : From one sexual perversion to another?