Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, Histories of French Sexuality reveals how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, and otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history.

Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris and coeditor of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Andrew Israel Ross is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Andrew Israel Ross and Nina Kushner
1. Colonial Liberties: Sex, Race, and the Law in the French Atlantic, 1603–1791
Jennifer J. Davis
2. Blood, Rape, and Stigmata: Revisiting the Cadière-Girard Affair of 1730
Cathy McClive
3. Unchaste Women: Sexuality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Nina Kushner
4. Domesticating Pleasure: The Sexual Politics of the French Enlightenment
Lisa Jane Graham
5. The Queer Gaze in Haussmann’s Paris, 1850–1900
Andrew Israel Ross
6. Secrets, Sex, and Medicine in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Jessie Hewitt
7. Sex, Scandal, and Power in the Steinheil Affair of 1908–1909
Sarah Horowitz
8. Mériadeck, Sexual Commerce, and the Urban Milieu
Michelle K. Rhoades
9. Two Readings of Gabrielle, or Passion, Mobility, and the Governance of White Prestige in Colonial Senegal
Jennifer Anne Boittin
10. Sex before 1968: Adolescence and the Presse Féminine
Sarah Fishman
11. Creating Lesbian Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s
Tamara Chaplin
Afterword
Robert A. Nye
Contributors
Index