Judging Homosexuals

A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France

By Patrice Corriveau
Foreword by Barry Adam
Translated by Käthe Roth
Categories: Social Sciences, Criminology, Sociology, Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society, Gender & Sexuality Studies, 2slgbtq+ Studies
Series: Sexuality Studies
Publisher: Les éditions du Septentrion, UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774817202, 244 pages, March 2011
Paperback : 9780774817219, 244 pages, January 2012
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774817226, 244 pages, February 2011
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Table of contents

Foreword / Barry Adam

Preface

Introduction

1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy

2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake

3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician

4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual

5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City Hall

Conclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?

Notes

References

Index

An absorbing exploration of the origins of homophobia and the evolution of gay persecution in France and Quebec.

Description

In 2004, the first same-sex couple married in Quebec. How did homosexuality – an act that had for centuries been defined as criminal and abominable – come to be sanctioned by law? In Judging Homosexuals, Patrice Corriveau finds answers in a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec. By tracing over time how various groups – family and clergy, doctors and jurists – tried to manage people who were defined in turn as sinners, as criminals, as inverts, and as citizens deserving of protection, this book shows how the law helped construct the crime.

Reviews

Judging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates.

- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick