Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris Viki Elliott and power in the context

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Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris Viki Elliott and power in the contextPolice in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or pederasty in the eighteenth century. In the mid 1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. Curated and translated into English here, these remarkable documents allow us to hear the voices of men who desired men and to explore complex questions about sources, patterns, and meanings in the history of sexuality. This volume centers on two cartons of