Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

The aftermath of Algeria’s revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970s—highly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard’s analysis of both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226790381

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Todd Shepard is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents and The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France.

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“A timely history of violence, fear, and prejudice in France since 1962. The figure of the North African Arab, as Todd Shepard deftly shows, is still present in French culture, although what was arguably at first a conflict of nationalisms is nowadays articulated as a fight against terrorism and Muslim extremism. A complex and thorough picture emerges.”

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION / Sex Talk and the Post-Algerian History of FranceONE / The Far Right and the Reinvigoration of Sexual Orientalism in Post-Decolonization FranceTWO / May ’68, “Arab Perversion,” and Anti-Arab RacismTHREE / The Algerian Revolution and Arab Men in the Fight for Sexual RevolutionFOUR / Homosociality, “Human Contact,” and the Specter of the Arab Man in the Post-’68 French Gay WorldFIVE / Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1945–1975: Algerian Pimps and the “Takeover” of the “Whores of France”SIX / Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1962–1979: Prostitutes, Arab Clients, and “the Traffic in White Women”SEVEN / Power, Resistance, and Sodomy in Post-Algerian FranceEIGHT / Rape as Metaphor in the 1970sNINE / Rape as Act in the 1970sCONCLUSION / The Erotics of Algerian Difference, 1979/2016BibliographyIndex