Gender and Sexuality in 1968 Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination

by Frazier, Lessie Jo; Cohen, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780230618718
• ISBN10: 0230618715
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968.

Author Biography

Lessie Jo Frazier is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University.

Deborah Cohen is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction Love-In, Love-Out: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in '68	p. 1
'68 in Movement and "Others"
"Out Now!": Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam	p. 25
Los Dueños de México: Power and Masculinity in '68	p. 59
"Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours": French Feminist "Moralism" and the Limits of Desire	p. 85
Plus ça Change... Gender and Revolutionary Ideology in Cuban Cinema of 1968	p. 115
Africa and 1968: Depression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation	p. 131
Spirit, Awakenings, Imaginaries, Beyond '68
Talking Back to '68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures	p. 145
Acts of Affection: Cinema, Citizenship, and Race in the Work of Sara Gómez	p. 173
The "Burning Body" as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach	p. 193
Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of '68	p. 219
The Spirit of May '68 and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement in France	p. 235
Afterword	p. 255
Index	p. 259
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