This volume explores the history of homosexuality in france since the 1940s with a combined focus on law politics and the media viewing this history as a complicated series of strategies adapted to each time period rather than simply as a teleological progression towards freedom p 3 gunther shows how the french republic and its values of secularism separation between . The elastic closet offers a compelling analysis of the legal imperatives and the social climate that have helped regulate homosexuality in france since the second world war not only does gunther analyze homosexuality from a top down perspective but he also delineates the different ways that homosexuals defined themselves and their . Download citation the elastic closet a history of homosexuality in france 1942 present review this volume explores the history of homosexuality in france since the 1940s with a combined . The elastic closet a history of homosexuality in france 1942 present authors gunther s free preview. The elastic closet a history of homosexuality in france 1942 present s gunther springer nov 12 2008 history 166 pages 0 reviews a history of french homosexuals since 1942 in the interconnected realms of law politics and the media with a focus on the complex relationship between french republican values and the possibilities they