Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France - Couverture souple

Corriveau, Patrice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774817216 ISBN 13 : 9780774817219

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patrice Corriveau is associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and a researcher with the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child and the Sexual and Gender Diversity: Vulnerability, Resilience. Käthe Roth has been a literary translator, working mainly in historical non-fiction, for more than twenty years. She lives and works in Saint-Lazare, Quebec.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774817216
• ISBN 13: 9780774817219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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• Personne responsable: non disponible