Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction
  
• Part I: The Forces of Authority
  
• Chapter 1. The Laws
  
• Chapter 2. The Police
  
• Chapter 3. The Police in the 1870s
  
• Chapter 4. The Magistrates
  
• Chapter 5. The Doctors
  
• Chapter 6. Summary
  
• Part II: The Subculture
  
• Chapter 7. Composition
  
• Chapter 8. Sexual Behavior
  
• Chapter 9. Social Relations
  
• Chapter 10. Geography
  
• Chapter 11. Summary
  
• Part III: Case Studies
  
• Chapter 12. A Decadent Aristocrat and a Delinquent Boy
  
• Chapter 13. Pederasts, Prostitutes, and Pickpockets
  
• Chapter 14. Love and Death in Gay Paris
  
• Chapter 15. Summary
  
• Conclusion
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  

About the Author

Peniston, William

Reviews

"Fascinating...An Important, Well-Researched, And Valuable Resource. The author draws on his wealth of knowledge of French legal, social, and sexual history to examine the police records within the construct of same-sex sexual identities in 1870s Paris."