French History

Barbadette, Gilles and Carassou, Michel

Paris Gay 1925. Paris: Presses de Renaissance, 1981.

Benstock, Shari

"Paris lesbianism and the politics of reaction, 1900-1940", in Duberman et al., Hidden from History, 1989, pp. 332-46.

Boisson, Jean

Le triangle rose: la deportation des homosexuels, 1933-1945. Paris: R. Laffont, 1988.

Bonnet, Marie-Jo

Un Choix sans équivoque: Recherches historiques sur les relations amoureuses entre les femmes XVIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Denoël, 1981.

Brassai

Le Paris secret des annees 30. Paris: Gallimard, 1976. Reprinted by Pantheon. Excellent illustrations, notably "La bal des invertis au bal de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve vers 1932" and "Le Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, un bal musette".

Cady, Joseph

"The 'masculine love' of the 'Princes of Sodom', 'Practising the Art of Ganymede' at Henri III's court: The homosexulaity of Henri III and his mignons in Pierre de L'Estoile's Mémoires-Journaux", in J. Murray and K. Eisenbichler (eds), Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996, pp. 124-54.

Colwill, Elizabeth

"Pass as a woman, act like a man: Marie-Antoinette as tribade in the pornography of the French Revolution", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 54-79.

Copley, Antony R.H.

Sexual Moralities in France, 1780-1980: New Ideas on the Family, Divorce, and Homosexuality. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.

Courouve, Claude

Bibliographie des homosexualites. Nouvelle edition. Paris: C. Courouve, 1978.

Courouve, Claude (ed.)

Les assemblées de la manchette: documents sur l'amour masculin au XVIIIe siècle. 1987.

Courouve, Claude

"Sodomy trials in France", Gay Books Bulletin, 1 (1978), pp. 22-3, 26.

Courouve, Claude and R. Kozerawski

Fragments 1-4, Collection archives unisexuelles, 1980-1.

Coward, D. A.

"Attitudes to homosexuality in eighteenth-century France", Journal of European Studies 10 (1980), pp. 249-50. Reprinted in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 35-59.

Daniel, Marc

"A study of homosexuality in France during the reign of Louis XIII and Louis XIV", trans. Marcel Martin, Homophile Studies: ONE Institute Quarterly, nos. 14 and 15 (1961), pp. 77-93 and 125-36. Informative and well documented. Good section on the circle of Theophile de Viau.

Delon, Michel

"The priest, the philosopher, and homosexuality in Enlightenment France", Eighteenth Century Life, 9 (1985), pp. 122-31.

Gunther, Scott E.

"Alors, Are We 'Queer' Yet?", The Gay & Lesbian Review, 12 (3) (May-June 2005): 23-5.

Gunther, Scott E.

"Building a more stately closet: French gay movements since the early 1980s", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13 (3) (2004): 326-47.

Gunther, Scott E.

La Construction de l'identité homosexuelle dans les lois aux Etats-Unis et en France, Mémoire de DEA, 1995, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Gunther, Scott E.

The Elastic Closet: Legal Censure and Auto-Censure of Homosexuality in France, Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 1999.

Gunther, Scott E.

The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Gunther, Scott E.

"France: History and politics", Reader's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies, ed. Timothy Murphy, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, pp. 227-28.

Gunther, Scott E.

"France: Law", Reader's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies, ed. Timothy Murphy, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, pp. 228-30.

Gunther, Scott E.

"Ghetto ou Village?" Le Nouvel Observateur, 28 February 2002, pp. 8, 9.

Gunther, Scott E.

"Le Marais: The indifferent ghetto", Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, 6 (1) (Winter 1999): pp. 34, 36.

Gunther, Scott E.

Review of The Pink and the Black by Frédéric Martel, Journal of Homosexuality, 42 (2) (2001-2002).

Hahn, Pierre (ed.)

Nos ancêtres les pervers: la vie des homosesuels sous le second empire. Paris: Oliver Orban, 1971. (Anthology of texts 1852-70)

Hanna, Martha

"Natalism, homosexuality, and the controversy over [Andre Gide's] Corydon", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 202-24.

Herman, Gerald

"The sin against nature and its echoes in medieval French literature", Annuale Mediaevale, 17 (1976): 70-87.

Huas, Jeanine

L'homosexualite au temps de Proust. Dinard: Editions Danclau, 1992.

Lever, Maurice

Les buchers de Sodome: histoire des "infames". Paris: Fayard, 1985.

Merrick, Jeffrey

"The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: representations of male and female sexual deviance in late eighteenth-century France", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 30-53.

Merrick, Jeffrey

"Sexual politics and public order in late eighteenth-century France: the Mémoires secrets and the Correspondance secrète", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1(1) (1990), pp. 68-84.

Merrick, Jeffrey and Sibalis, Michael, eds

Homosexuality in French History and Culture. Haworth, 2001.

Merrick, Jeffrey and Ragan, Bryant T.

Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Merrick, Jeffrey and Ragan, Bryant T.

Homosexuality in Modern France: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Nye, Robert A.

"Michel Foucault's sexuality and the history of homosexuality in France", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 225-41.

Peniston, William A.

"Love and death in gay Paris: homosexulity and criminality in the 1870s", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 128-145.

Peniston, William A.

Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Harrington Park Press, 2004.

Ragan, Bryant T., Jr.

"The Enlightenment confronts homosexuality", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 8-29.

Rey, Michel

"Parisian homosexuals create a lifestyle, 1700-1750: The police archives", Eighteenth-Century Life, 9 (1985), 179-91. Reprinted in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (eds), History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 273-85.

Rey, Michel

"Police and sodomy in eighteenth-century Paris: From sin to disorder", in Gerard and Hekma, The Pursuit of Sodomy (1989), 129-46.

Robb, Graham

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century. Picador, 2003. Reviews in The Guardian; The Independent; Newsday; and New Statesman.

Rosario, Vernon A., II

"Pointy penises, fashion crimes, and hysterical mollies: the pederasts' inversions", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 146-76.

Sautman, Francesca Canadé

"Invisible women: lesbian working-class culture in France, 1880-1930", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 177-201.

Schehr, Lawrence R.

Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. Review.

Schehr, Lawrence R.

The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics in French Writing. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Seel, Pierre

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Sibalis, Michael

"Homophobia, Vichy France and the ‘crime of homosexuality': The origins of the Ordinance of 6 August 1942", GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 8 (3) (2002): 301-18.

Sibalis, Michael David

"The regulation of male homosexuality in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789-1815", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 80-102.

Stockinger, Jacob

"Homosexuality and the French Enlightenment", in G. Stamboulian and E. Marks (eds), Homosexualitiy and French Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979, pp. 161-85.

Tamagne, Florence

A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, 2 vols, New York: Algora, 2004.

Teaseley, D.

"The charge of sodomy as a political weapon in early modern France - the case of Henry III in Catholic League polemic, 1585-1589", Maryland Historian, 18(1) (1987), pp. 17-30.

Thompson, Victoria

"Creating boundaries: homosexuality and the changing social order in France, 1830-1870", in Merrick and Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France (1996), pp. 102-127.

Weiss, Andrea

Paris was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. (Lesbian literary subculture c. 1900)

Wolfgang, Aurora

"A passion between women: The case of Germaine de Staèl and Juliette Récamier", Women in French Studies, 7 (1999), pp. 66-78.

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