University of British Columbia Press
Judging Homosexuals
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About this book
In 2004, the first same-sex couple legally married in Quebec. How did homosexuality – an act that had for centuries been defined as abominable and criminal – come to be sanctioned by law?
Judging Homosexuals finds answers in a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec, places that share a common culture but have diverging legal traditions. In both settings, Patrice Corriveau explores 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 to be protected by law.
By bringing to light the various discourses that have over time supported the control and persecution of individual homoerotic behaviour in France and Quebec, this book makes the case that when it came to managing sexuality, the law helped construct the crime.
Author / Editor information
Patrice Corriveau is an 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.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Figures and Tables
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century
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The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest
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The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century
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The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution
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The 1970s to the Present
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Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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