Bavardages et masculinités au xviie siècle
This article concerns the close connection between gossip and the expression of male same-sex desire in seventeenth-century France. Traditionally associated with the negative qualities imputed to women or serving as a covert vehicle for the playing out of social and political rivalries, gossip is he...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Pléiade (EA 7338)
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Itinéraires |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/2211 |
| Summary: | This article concerns the close connection between gossip and the expression of male same-sex desire in seventeenth-century France. Traditionally associated with the negative qualities imputed to women or serving as a covert vehicle for the playing out of social and political rivalries, gossip is here shown to have had an important and positive function: affording a space for groups which were not otherwise allowed a voice. |
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| ISSN: | 2427-920X |