Judging Homosexuals
A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France
- Publisher
- Les éditions du Septentrion, UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2012
- Category
- Gay Studies, Criminology, Gender Studies, Civil Rights
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774817219
- Publish Date
- Jan 2012
- List Price
- $29.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774817202
- Publish Date
- Mar 2011
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774817226
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $29.95
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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.
About the authors
Patrice Corriveau is assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa and the author of La répression juridique des homosexuels au Québec et en France.
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Kathe Roth was born in Montréal and now lives in Saint-Lazare, Québec. She has been a literary translator and editor for more than twenty-five years. Her work includes over thirty translated books and essays of literary non-fiction on various subjects, including art, architecture, economics, history, and sociology, as well as fiction. She was a finalist for the Governor General Award for literary translation in 1993 for “The Last Cod Fish” by Pol Chantraine. She is a member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada.
Editorial 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.
Law and Politics Book Review
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