Description |
1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Globalization and the French (Gay) resistance -- part 1. Theoretical considerations -- 1. Assault on French gay culture -- An (American) English presence in the French gay press -- Being "gay" in French culture -- Vague English creole : lexical evidence of an English presence -- Cooperative discourse in Têtu -- Locating French (gay) identity : global and local forces at work -- Cooperative French discourse in Têtu -- Cooperative discourse and Republican-based language of French sexual citizenship -- 2. The next gene(t)ration : "genet" as an authentic model for queer French -- Authenticity, cultural genuineness, and language -- "Genet" as an archetype or authentic speaker of queer French -- Genet's authentic queer French voice in contemporary French popular culture -- Genet's continued influence on French sexual citizenship -- pt. 2. Everyday expressions -- 3. French articulations of the closet and coming out -- Recent scholarship on corning out and the closet -- The coming-out interview : methodology and recruitment -- French images of concealment : resistance to "the closet" and "the desert" -- French images of disclosure : "faire le coming out" and "s'assumer" -- The French Republic and the missing homosexual closet -- 4. "S'assumer dans la famille" : coming out in the French (Republican) family -- The French family, symbolic order, and sex talk -- Interpersonal and elliptical narratives of sexual disclosure -- L 'affaire du loft : (not) coming out on French reality television -- In search of visible and democratic models of citizenship -- 5. Gay Paris : language, sexuality, and space in the French capital -- Theorizing the global city, citizenship, and (homo) sexuality -- Situating gay Paris in historical and contemporary contexts -- A map analysis of French gay city -- Paris' gay center : global and local tensions -- Lesbians, sexuality, and the city -- Movement across the city : examples of transgression and integration -- French-Arab (Beur) experience : an exceptional model of integration -- Spatial claims to French (sexual) citizenship -- Conclusion : a queer French model for the 21st century -- Appendix: Interview questions. |
Summary |
Drawing on material from a diverse array of media, Queer French examines the tensions between Anglo-American and French articulations of homosexuality and sexual citizenship in the context of contemporary French popular culture and first-person narratives. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Homosexuality -- France.
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Gays -- France.
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Gay press.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Gay press. (OCoLC)fst00939208
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Gays. (OCoLC)fst00939255
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Homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst00959755
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Provencher, Denis M. Queer French. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007 (DLC) 2007001508 |
ISBN |
0754686469 (electronic bk.) |
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9780754686460 (electronic bk.) |
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