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Author:   Todd Shepard
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780226790381

ISBN 10:   022679038
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   12 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION / Sex Talk and the Post-Algerian History of France ONE / The Far Right and the Reinvigoration of Sexual Orientalism in Post-Decolonization France TWO / May '68, Arab Perversion, and Anti-Arab Racism THREE / The Algerian Revolution and Arab Men in the Fight for Sexual Revolution FOUR / Homosociality, Human Contact, and the Specter of the Arab Man in the Post-'68 French Gay World FIVE / 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 France EIGHT / Rape as Metaphor in the 1970s NINE / Rape as Act in the 1970s CONCLUSION / The Erotics of Algerian Difference, 1979/2016 Bibliography Index

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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. -- Times Literary Supplement Shepard's book is an achievement. His methodological insistence on holding decolonization and the Sexual Revolution together within the same frame of analysis yields new and substantial insights in both of these fields. Shepard is utterly convincing: we cannot understand how the global patterns of the Sexual Revolution impacted France without understanding France's post-decolonization context. The breadth and depth of Shepard's archival work, too, is striking. Numerous films, plays, television documentaries, works of scholarship and theory, major and minor right-wing journals, Maghrebi writers, underground magazines and posters, police files: the reader has the dizzying impression that Shepard has located and perceptively analyzed every relevant instance of 'sex talk' in these years. -- Politics, Religion & Ideology Shepard's book offers a radical and radically new account of the intimately entwined histories of the Algerian and Sexual Revolutions in France. Historians frequently view the two decades following the 'war without a name' as a period in which French memory of the brutal conflict was occulted, if not completely forgotten. In this deeply researched and convincingly argued book, Shepard shows instead that figures associated with the war, and especially the 'Arab man' as both social fact and rhetorical trope, were culturally and politically omnipresent--in literature, journalism, and film, as well as governmental, police, and academic discourse and policy. Indeed, by combining insights of feminist, queer, critical race, and post-colonial theory, this work does not simply offer a new understanding of these pivotal two decades in French and global history. It just as importantly provides critical historical insight into the moment out which so much of that theory emerged. -- Judith Surkis, Rutgers University Shepard's study, with its emphasis on daring ideas about sex and revolution half a century ago, is rich with implications for the present. -- London Review of Books Shepard's Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 is particularly exciting because it challenges long-standing assumptions about the relationship between colony and metropole but also about the history of sexuality in France. As Shepard argues, the so-called French sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was intimately tied to the war in Algeria, to decolonization, and to immigration. Shepard's thorough commitment to critique shines through in his systematic questioning and denaturalization of long-standing assumptions in the fields of postcolonial criticism, French history, queer theory, and sexuality studies. This book's theoretical ambitions, its interdisciplinary focus, and its elegance will make this a must-read in all of these fields. -- Camille Robcis, Cornell University

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. * Times Literary Supplement * Shepard's study, with its emphasis on daring ideas about sex and revolution half a century ago, is rich with implications for the present. * London Review of Books * Shepard's book is an achievement. His methodological insistence on holding decolonization and the Sexual Revolution together within the same frame of analysis yields new and substantial insights in both of these fields. Shepard is utterly convincing: we cannot understand how the global patterns of the Sexual Revolution impacted France without understanding France's post-decolonization context. The breadth and depth of Shepard's archival work, too, is striking. Numerous films, plays, television documentaries, works of scholarship and theory, major and minor right-wing journals, Maghrebi writers, underground magazines and posters, police files: the reader has the dizzying impression that Shepard has located and perceptively analyzed every relevant instance of 'sex talk' in these years. * Politics, Religion & Ideology * By putting Maghrebi-French men and women at the center of the story, the book casts new light on the 1962-79 period, which has been relatively under-appreciated by scholars of postcolonial France... The book also makes an original contribution to the historiography of the sexual revolution in France, and to the study of sex, gender, and sexuality more broadly. * International Journal of Middle East Studies * Shepard's Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 is particularly exciting because it challenges long-standing assumptions about the relationship between colony and metropole but also about the history of sexuality in France. As Shepard argues, the so-called French sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was intimately tied to the war in Algeria, to decolonization, and to immigration. Shepard's thorough commitment to critique shines through in his systematic questioning and denaturalization of long-standing assumptions in the fields of postcolonial criticism, French history, queer theory, and sexuality studies. This book's theoretical ambitions, its interdisciplinary focus, and its elegance will make this a must-read in all of these fields. * Camille Robcis, Cornell University * Shepard's book offers a radical and radically new account of the intimately entwined histories of the Algerian and Sexual Revolutions in France. Historians frequently view the two decades following the 'war without a name' as a period in which French memory of the brutal conflict was occulted, if not completely forgotten. In this deeply researched and convincingly argued book, Shepard shows instead that figures associated with the war, and especially the 'Arab man' as both social fact and rhetorical trope, were culturally and politically omnipresent-in literature, journalism, and film, as well as governmental, police, and academic discourse and policy. Indeed, by combining insights of feminist, queer, critical race, and post-colonial theory, this work does not simply offer a new understanding of these pivotal two decades in French and global history. It just as importantly provides critical historical insight into the moment out which so much of that theory emerged. * Judith Surkis, Rutgers University *

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. * Times Literary Supplement * Shepard's study, with its emphasis on daring ideas about sex and revolution half a century ago, is rich with implications for the present. * London Review of Books * Shepard's book is an achievement. His methodological insistence on holding decolonization and the Sexual Revolution together within the same frame of analysis yields new and substantial insights in both of these fields. Shepard is utterly convincing: we cannot understand how the global patterns of the Sexual Revolution impacted France without understanding France's post-decolonization context. The breadth and depth of Shepard's archival work, too, is striking. Numerous films, plays, television documentaries, works of scholarship and theory, major and minor right-wing journals, Maghrebi writers, underground magazines and posters, police files: the reader has the dizzying impression that Shepard has located and perceptively analyzed every relevant instance of 'sex talk' in these years. * Politics, Religion & Ideology * Shepard's Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 is particularly exciting because it challenges long-standing assumptions about the relationship between colony and metropole but also about the history of sexuality in France. As Shepard argues, the so-called French sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was intimately tied to the war in Algeria, to decolonization, and to immigration. Shepard's thorough commitment to critique shines through in his systematic questioning and denaturalization of long-standing assumptions in the fields of postcolonial criticism, French history, queer theory, and sexuality studies. This book's theoretical ambitions, its interdisciplinary focus, and its elegance will make this a must-read in all of these fields. * Camille Robcis, Cornell University * Shepard's book offers a radical and radically new account of the intimately entwined histories of the Algerian and Sexual Revolutions in France. Historians frequently view the two decades following the 'war without a name' as a period in which French memory of the brutal conflict was occulted, if not completely forgotten. In this deeply researched and convincingly argued book, Shepard shows instead that figures associated with the war, and especially the 'Arab man' as both social fact and rhetorical trope, were culturally and politically omnipresent-in literature, journalism, and film, as well as governmental, police, and academic discourse and policy. Indeed, by combining insights of feminist, queer, critical race, and post-colonial theory, this work does not simply offer a new understanding of these pivotal two decades in French and global history. It just as importantly provides critical historical insight into the moment out which so much of that theory emerged. * Judith Surkis, Rutgers University *

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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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