Gay studies from the French cultures : voices from France, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and the Netherlands / Rommel Mendès-Leite, Pierre-Olivier de Busscher, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the esthetics of pleasures: guidelines for a socio-anthropology of (homo)sexualities / Rommel Mendès-Leite -- Identification or the pluralisation of the person / Michel Maffesoli -- Foucault: the imaginary sex / Jean-Manuel de Queiroz -- Between man and woman: the character of the lesbian / Brigitte Lhomond -- Myths and historiographies of lesbian sexuality / Dorelies Kraakman -- Sappho mythified, Sappho mystified or the metamorphoses of Sappho in fin de siècle France / Nicole Albert -- Silenced resistances and conflictual identities: lesbians in France, 1930-1968 / Claudie Lesselier -- Twentieth century lesbians: should we revive memory or break with the past? / Geneviève Pastre -- Paederasty and political life in archaic Greek cities / Bernard Sergent -- Homosexual exile: the textuality of the imaginary paradise, 1800-1980 / Rudi Bleys -- A homosexual militant at the beginning of the century: Marc André Raffalovich / Patrick Cardon -- The minitel: the glittering future of a new invention / Mattias Duyves -- Gai Pied after ten years: a commercial success, a moral bankruptcy? / Jan Willem Duyvendak, Mattias Duyves -- French Renaissance travel accounts: images of sin, visions of the new world / Guy Poirier -- Remembering lesbian bars: Montreal, 1955-1975 / Line Chamberland -- A game of appearances: the "ambigusexuality" in Brazilian culture of sexuality / Rommel Mendès-Leite -- On a "minority complex" / René Schérer -- The evolution of the AIDS illness and the polarisation of values / Lindinalva Laurindo Da Silva -- Homosexual rituals and safer sex / Michael Pollak -- Homosexuals and AIDS: a new approach to the illness / Claude Vandevyer.