Sex, France, and Arab Men, 19621979

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Now in paperback, a history of the sexual revolution in Algeria amid and in the wake of the upheaval of the Revolution

Product details

• Authors: Todd Shepard, Shepard Todd
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780226790381
• ISBN: 978-0-226-79038-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Ethnic Studies, France, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Africa / North, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural history, Gay & Lesbian studies, African History, North Africa, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Of specific Gay interest, Psychology: sexual behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, Relating to gay people, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, HISTORY / LGBTQ+, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies