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...Frank Proschan Duke University Press 2002 EUNUCH MANDARINS, SOLDATS MAMZELLES, EFFEMINATE BOYS, AND GRACELESS WOMEN French Colonial Constructions of Vietnamese Genders Frank Proschan Strollers: Two beings walk up the street, placidly, with tiny steps. They take each other...

... and the Subversion of Identity . New York: Routledge, 1990 . Bynum , Caroline Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion . New York: Zone Books, 1991 . Cazelles , Brigitte . The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances...

...Nadine Hubbs Duke University Press 2000 1045-03.Hubbs 5/31/00 3:08 PM Page 389 A FRENCH CONNECTION Modernist Codes in the Musical Closet Nadine Hubbs In 1919, in a Pennsylvania town, a nine-year-old boy summoned his courage...

...Leon J. Hilton In 2011 the French artists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, who since 1991 have worked together as the art collaborative Art Orienté Objet, created a performance titled Que le cheval vive en moi ( May the Horse Live in Me ). In the piece, which took several months to complete...

...Yvonne Welbon While considering the French historian Pierre Nora's statement that “modern memory is, above all, archival,” this essay introduces an experimental archive project focused on gathering social-organizing stories of nonconforming black women who began their work in and prior to the 1980s...

...Vanessa Agard-Jones Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores—both territorially and symbolically—of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean Sea. During the nineteenth century, Saint-Pierre was known as the “Sodom” of the Antilles, as a cosmopolitan city where decadence...

...Maja Horn This essay explores the joint multimedia exhibits presented in the Dominican Republic by the artistic collaborators Nelson Ricart-Guerrero, a Dominican now living in Paris, and his French partner, Christian Vauzelle, and the questions that Ricart-Guerrero's artistic return raises about...

...S. Pearl Brilmyer; Filippo Trentin; Zairong Xiang This essay excavates from within the history of feminist and queer theory a series of implicit theories of the couple, ranging from French feminist critiques of asymmetrical heterosexual relationships to triadic accounts of the queer as couple’s...

...Lindsay Zafir This article examines the gay French author Jean Genet’s 1970 tour of the United States with the Black Panther Party, using Genet’s unusual relationship with the Panthers as a lens for analyzing the possibilities and pitfalls of radical coalition politics in the long sixties. I rely...

...Keith M. Harris © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 References Cervulle Maxime . 2008 . “ French Heteronormativity and the Commodification of the Arab Body .” Radical History Review , no. 100 : 171 – 78 . Mack Mehammed Amadeus . 2017 . Sexagon: Muslims, France...

...: Publications de l'Association Canado-Américaine, 1957 . 261 –64. Dodge , William Boundaries of Identity: A Québec Reader. Toronto: Lester, 1992 . Dubois , René Daniel , “ October 1990 .“ Dodge 63 –73. Ducharme , Jacques , The Shadows of the Trees: The Story of French Canadians...

... of Georges Morin, a member of the French Resistance during the 1940–44 German occupation, the French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, made a remark that took his audience by surprise: “It is important that our country fully recognize the persecutions perpetrated during the Occupation against certain...

... University Press . Wilder Gary . 2005 . The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . BOOKS IN BRIEF 611 AGAINST VANILLA HISTORIES Camille Robcis Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962 1979 Todd Shepard...

... studies. She is author of Female Masculinity (1998) and coauthor of The Drag King Book (1999) and is now working on a book about queer subcultures, rural and urban. Elisabeth Ladenson teaches French and comparative literature at the University...

... Elisabeth Ladenson Years ago, while teaching “if” clauses in French language classes, I used to give a short essay assignment that seldom failed to yield interesting results: the paper was to be titled “Si j’étais un homme” [If I were a man] or “Si j’étais une femme...

... tenure. When she came to the university in 1990 (first joining the French department, and then in 1998 also making a home in women’s studies), she had already long been celebrated internationally as a renowned writer, lesbian materialist theorist, and activist.1 Wittig herself worried that she...

... in relation to pederasty in Miracle has added homophobic fuel to the damning charge of backwardness. Hierarchical feudal relations of vassalage, obedience, and protection are typically understood as the premodern opposites of French republican values of equality, liberty, and fraternity. Yet...

... Bretonnerie, the heart of what has recently become an American-style gay neighborhood, rainbow fl ags and all, in the center of old Paris. To the east, almost facing the Rue Sainte-Croix but off by a few yards, begins the Rue des Rosiers, the cultural metonym for the French Jewish community. My father...

... Perverts” caused such a scandal—although the French government claimed that the issue contained pornographic content, Michel Foucault ([1973] 2015: xiv) himself argued, at Guattari's trial, that the real reason “Three Billion Perverts” was censored had more to do with the FHAR's unabashed refusal...

... on pre-Zionist criticisms of state violence. Diane Griffin Crowder is professor of French and women’s studies at Cornell College (Iowa), where she cofounded an LGBT student group in 1978 and the women’s studies program in 1984. Active in feminist and lesbian scholarship, she has pre- sented...