Public City/Public Sex
Subtitle: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781439914885
Subjects: Male homosexuality; Prostitution, france; City and town life; Social control; Paris (france), social conditions
Description: "In the nineteenth century, Paris was redesigned in ways intended to exercise social control over its citizens. This effort to control certain kinds of interactions, however, created new spaces that female prostitutes and men who sought sex with other men could use for public sex"--