Gender and Sexuality in 1968: Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination

✍ Scribed by Lessie Jo Frazier, Deborah Cohen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Love-In, Love-Out: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in ’68......Page 18
Part 1: ’68 in Movement and “Others”......Page 40
One: “Out Now!”: Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam......Page 42
Two: Los Dueños de México: Power and Masculinity in ’68......Page 76
Three: “Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours”: French Feminist “Moralism” and the Limits of Desire......Page 102
Four: Plus ça Change … Gender and Revolutionary Ideology in Cuban Cinema of 1968......Page 132
Five: Africa and 1968: Derepression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation......Page 148
Part 2: Spirit, Awakenings, Imaginaries, Beyond ’68......Page 160
Six: Talking Back to ’68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures......Page 162
Seven: Acts of Affection: Cinema, Citizenship, and Race in the Work of Sara Gómez......Page 190
Eight: The “Burning Body” as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach......Page 210
Nine: Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of ’68......Page 236
Ten: The Spirit of May ’68 and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement in France......Page 252
Afterword......Page 272
C......Page 276
F......Page 277
H......Page 278
N......Page 279
S......Page 280
Z......Page 281