Through the keyhole : A history of sex, space and public modesty in modern France

Name: Through the keyhole
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781784991524
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ISBN: 9781784991524

by Marcela Iacub

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Format 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 history Social & cultural history European history Social 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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