Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

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The aftermath of Algeria’s revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and on this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.​

Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 in the course of the 1970s—highly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in vital public French discussions, both those who dealt with sex and people who spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-known as sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard’s analysis of both events alongside one some other provides a frame that renders visible the ways in which the fight for sexual liberation, frequently explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the around the globe anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.

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