Gender and sexuality in 1968: transformative politics in the cultural imagination

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. INDICE: - Preface; L.Passerini - Introduction; D.Cohen ; L.J.Frazier - PART I: '68 IN MOVEMENT - Coming out against the War: Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam; J.D.Suran - Deviant Masculinities: Mutual Caricaturizations of Students and the State in Mexico; E.Carey - PART II: SUBJECTIVITY, DESIRE, AND POLITICS - 'Our Sexual Revolution is not Yours': French Feminist 'Moralism' and the Limits of Desire; J.Bourg - Africa and 1968: Derepression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation; S.Pierce - Heroic Masculinity in the Prison and 'Women' in the Streets; D.Cohen ; L.J.Frazier - PART III: SPIRIT, ICONS, AWAKENINGS, POST-'68 - The 'Burning Body' as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach; C.Sabatos - Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of Mexico '68; M.Joffroy - The Spirit of May '68 and the Gay Liberation Movement in France; M.Sibalis - Comment; M.Zancarini-Fournel ; J.Tzu-Chun Wu

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61871-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés