Sexagon : Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa--as well as their French descendants--have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness rej...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York : University of Virginia Press,
2017
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| Schlagworte: | Homosexuality Sex North Africans Assimilation (Sociology) National characteristics, French Assimilation (Sociology) - France Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa--as well as their French descendants--have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness rejected not because of any linguistic or civic barrier, but rather due to their perceived inadequacy at the level of sexual liberation. Intro -- Fordham University Press -- Contents -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (339 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780823274628 0823274624 9780823274604 0823274608 |