Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226790381)

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.

Author: Todd Shepard
ISBN-10: 022679038X
ISBN-13: 9780226790381
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2021
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d