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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Main Author: Nicholas Hammond
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2008-12-01
Series:Itinéraires
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/2211
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title_short Bavardages et masculinités au xviie siècle
title_full Bavardages et masculinités au xviie siècle
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description 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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