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Horizontal Collaboration : The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946 by Mel Gordon (2015, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeral House
ISBN-101627310177
ISBN-139781627310178
eBay Product ID (ePID)211320516
Product Key Features
Book TitleHorizontal Collaboration : the Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicHuman Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Europe / France, Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Popular Culture, Prostitution & Sex Trade, Sociology / Urban, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, Psychology, History
AuthorMel Gordon
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight31.5 Oz
Item Length1.1 in
Item Width8.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal306.7094436109044
Table Of ContentHorizontal Collaboration Table of Content Preface Chapter 1 Paris Plaisirs Chapter 2 Paris is a Woman: Cocottes, GarÇonnes and Poulles Chapter 3 The Fleshpots of Montmartre and Les Halles Chapter 4 Maisons Closes: "The Shuttered Houses" Chapter 5 Staging Paris: Nightclubs, Music Halls, and Tourist Traps Chapter 6 Gay Paree Chapter 7 Erotomania Chapter 8 Hitler's Brothel and Liberation Chapter 9 Madam Richard's Crusade Directory of Naughty Paris (1930) Thirty Hotspots Bibiograpy
Synopsis2016 IndieFab Honorable Mention in Popular Culture. Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic , the celebrated history about the sex culture of Weimar Berlin, returns with a stunningly illustrated look at Paris, The City of Pleasure, prior to and during German occupation during World War II. The book Horizontal Collaboration encompasses the Jazz Age, Depression, World War and Occupation, and Liberation. It concludes with the shuttering of the licensed brothels in 1946, which some Parisian intellectuals thought was the final "destruction of French civilization". The term "Horizontal Collaboration" refers to the sexual liaisons between French civilians and German occupiers from 1940 to 1944. These were extremely widespread and included both individual wartime relationships in addition to prostitution. As Allied armies swept across the French countryside, thousands of young women--and some men--were savagely punished by the authorities or by vigilante crowds, becoming a source of deep national shame. Author Gordon redefines the pejorative term to mean something much broader: French men and women "horizontally collaborated" to overcome all social obstacles, divisions, and regulations. These obstacles include married and unmarried couples, straights and homosexuals, foreigners and locals, gun-toting soldiers and their vanquished subjects. The natural yearning for sexual pleasure equally corrupted all cohabitating partners. This book rediscovers a remarkable time when the aesthetic and erotic capitol of Europe experienced remarkable heights and shameful lows. . . . Hundreds of images, most never before seen in a book, encompass this fascinating but little-known history., 2016 IndieFab Honorable Mention in Popular Culture. Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic , the celebrated history about the sex culture of Weimar Berlin, returns with a stunningly illustrated look at Paris, The City of Pleasure, prior to and during German occupation during World War II. The book Horizontal Collaboration encompasses the Jazz Age, Depression, World War and Occupation, and Liberation. It concludes with the shuttering of the licensed brothels in 1946, which some Parisian intellectuals thought was the final "destruction of French civilization." The term "Horizontal Collaboration" refers to the sexual liaisons between French civilians and German occupiers from 1940 to 1944. These were extremely widespread and included both individual wartime relationships in addition to prostitution. As Allied armies swept across the French countryside, thousands of young women--and some men--were savagely punished by the authorities or by vigilante crowds, becoming a source of deep national shame. Author Gordon redefines the pejorative term to mean something much broader: French men and women "horizontally collaborated" to overcome all social obstacles, divisions, and regulations. These obstacles include married and unmarried couples, straights and homosexuals, foreigners and locals, gun-toting soldiers and their vanquished subjects. The natural yearning for sexual pleasure equally corrupted all cohabitating partners. This book rediscovers a remarkable time when the aesthetic and erotic capitol of Europe experienced remarkable heights and shameful lows. . . . Hundreds of images, most never before seen in a book, encompass this fascinating but little-known history., Mel Gordon's companion volume to his highly praised pictorial history Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin ., Horizontal Collaboration is the first English-language narrative that focuses solely on Paris' expansive sexual life. Divided into 10 chapters, this exotic book features the Erotic Liberation following the Armistice, Flapperism in the Jazz-Age Era, Montmartre Entertainments, Legal Brothels and Prostitution, Sex Tourism, Gay Culture, Erotomania, Wartime Collaboration during the German Occupation, and Postwar Retribution against Vichy period collaborators. It is the follow-up to Gordon's highly-praised book, Voluptuous Panic (Feral House, 2008).
LC Classification NumberHQ18
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