Gender and Sexuality in 1968: Endorsements

2009

Paperback Palgrave 2019 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. "1968 is one of the most fiercely debated and misunderstood transformative years in global history. This extraordinarycollection takes us out of our comfort zones and brilliantly shifts the terms of discussion away from the cheerful celebration of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll to the more terrifying and painful stories of brutal repression, agonized shame, and conflicted aspirations. It decenters the typical western tales told about 1968 by bringing in the vantage points of Havana, Mexico City, Prague, and Dakar, while offering utterly fresh accounts of developments in Paris and San Francisco as well. The beaten, burning, and yearning bodies evoked here withsensitivity and rigor change how we think about the intricate interconnections between emotions and politics." - Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics "1968, like 1789 and 1848, is a watershed year in the history of revolutionary movements, one whose events reshape everything that follows. Drawing on archival research, close readings of texts and images, and political analysis to reframe these events in a comparative global context, and foregrounding the hitherto neglected significance of gender and sexuality, Frazier and Cohen s new interdisciplinary collection proposes major revisions in how we think about 1968 and what has come since." - Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri-Columbia "Frazier and Cohen's collection considers the centrality of gender and sexuality in a year of global political ferment.Essays on events and social movements in Africa, Europe, and the Americas challenge conventional scholarship, raise new questions, and provoke new directions in our thinking about why 1968 mattered then, and why it still does today."-Lisa Duggan, author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, CONTENTS Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy “Out Now!”: Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam Justin David Suran Los Duenos de Mexico: Power and Masculinity in ’68 Elaine Carey “Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours”: French Feminist “Moralism” and the Limits of Desire Julian Bourg Plus ça Change… Gender and Revolutionary Ideology in Cuban Cinema of 1968 Emily A. Maguire Africa and 1968: Derepression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation Steven Pierce Spirit, Awakenings, Imaginaries, Beyond ’68 Talking Back to’ 68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures Deborah Cohen, Lessie Jo Frazier Acts of Affection: Cinema, Citizenship, and Race in the Work of Sara Gomez Susan Lord The “Burning Body” as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach Charles Sabatos Ph.D. Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of 68 Michelle Joffroy The Spirit of May 68 and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement in France Michael Sibalis Afterword Michele Zancarini-Fournel (Translated by Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier)

The Sixties A Journal of History, Politics and Culture , 2019

Bonfiglioli, Chiara, "The gendered legacies of global 1968" review essay on Gender and Sexuality in 1968, Frazier & Cohen, eds. (Palgrave 2009; 2018paperback)

Cultural Studies Review, 2019

1985

Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 1996

2012

New interdisciplinary, nationally-specific & transnational perspectives on queer lives, cultures and thought. Contributors examine sexual debates in postwar Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Finland and New Zealand. The Introduction discusses the aims and scope of the collection, its interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach, and the critical issues at stake in conceptualising the 'queer 1950s'.

American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960

Agnew/A Companion, 2007

The American Historical Review, 2006