Sexagon : Muslims, France and the sexualization of national culture /

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In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society's understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mack, Mehammed Amadeus (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Modern language initiative.
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Social aspects > France.
Sex > Social aspects > France > History.
North Africans > France.
Muslims > France.
Assimilation (Sociology) > France.
National characteristics, French.
French.
Sex > France.
Arabes > France.
Sexualité > France.
Assimilation (Sociologie) > France.
Homosexualité > Aspect social > France.
Sexualité > Aspect social > France > Histoire.
Maghrébins > France.
Français.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Arabs
Assimilation (Sociology)
Muslims
Sex
Literary studies: general.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Politics & government.
Comparative Literature.
Society.
France
Arab.
France.
Muslim.
banlieue.
diversity.
homonormativity.
immigration.
queer.
sexual nationalism.
underground.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : enter the sexagon
  • 1. The banlieue has a gender : competing visions of sexual diversity
  • 2. Constructing the broken family : the draw for psychoanalysis
  • 3. Uncultured yet seductive : the trope of the difficult Arab boy
  • 4. Sexual undergrounds : cinema, performance, and ethnic surveillance
  • 5. Erotic solutions for ethnic tension : fantasy, reality, pornography
  • Conclusion : the sexagon's border crisis.

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