Queer French : globalization, language, and sexual citizenship in France / Denis M. Provencher.
Chapters include: 'Globalization and the French (Gay) Resistance', 'An Assault on French Gay Culture: An English Presence in the French Gay Press', 'French Articulations of the Closet and Coming Out' and 'Gay Paris: Language, Sexuality an Space in the French Capita...
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Globalization and the French (Gay) resistance
- pt. 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.