Through the keyhole : A history of sex, space and public modesty in modern France
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
178499152X
ISBN-13
9781784991524
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 7th, 2016
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
318 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 13.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
European historySocial & cultural historyEuropean historySocial and cultural history
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This interdisciplinary study of the modern formation of concepts of public decency in France proceeds through a focus on the word pudeur (modesty), following its incidence across a wide range of cultural domains. -- .
In 1857, a group of young people who had participated in an orgy in a private mansion was sentenced for contempt of public decency (outrage public à la pudeur) because a voyeur was able to watch them through a keyhole. For Marcela Iacub, the crux of such cases hinges on where the public ends and the private begins, and what one can reveal, and what one ought to hide. Today, the term pudeur has disappeared from the French penal code to be replaced by Sex. But, far from being an epic story of hard-won freedom, Iacub demonstrates that the transformation techniques used by the State in the last two centuries have rendered sexuality into a spectacle and have conditioned our spaces, our clothes, our comportment and even some of our mental illnesses. In so doing, Iacub offers us a politico-legal history of the gaze. -- .
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