Marcela Iacub

Through the keyhole (eBook, ePUB)

A history of sex, space and public modesty in modern France
Übersetzer: Swamy, Vinay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784998110
• Artikelnr.: 48796890

Autorenporträt

Marcela Iacub, translated by Vinay Swamy

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's foreword Introduction Part I: Constructing and abolishing the
wall of modesty 1. The construction of the wall of modesty 2. The conquest
of private space by public space 3. The invention of interior publicity
Part II: The visual liberation of public spaces 4. The wars of the chaste
nude 5. The publicity of unchaste sexuality Part III: The politics of
spaces in the era of Sex 6. the new criminal law on sexuality 7. The
scenography of Sex 8. Perverts and the dissolute Works cited Index