Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979

Download or read book Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962–1979 written by Todd Shepard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex talk and the post-Algerian history of France -- The far right and the reinvigoration of sexual orientalism in post-decolonization France -- May '68, "Arab perversion," and anti-Arab racism -- The Algerian revolution and Arab men in the fight for sexual revolution -- Homosociality, "human contact," and the specter of the Arab man in the post-'68 French gay world -- Prostitution and the Arab man, 1945-1975: Algerian pimps and the "takeover" of the "whores of France"--Prostitution and the Arab man, 1962-1979: prostitutes, Arab clients, and "the traffic in white women" -- Power, resistance, and sodomy in post-Algerian France -- Rape as metaphor in the 1970s -- Rape as act in the 1970s -- The erotics of Algerian difference, 1979-2016