Section outline

    • This class will explore the issue of LGBT rights in France. Particular attention will be given to the debate surrounding the PaCS (Pacte Civil de Solidarité) and more recently the ‘mariage pour tous’.  

    • Required reading : 

    • Fassin, Eric (2001), ‘Same sex, different politics: “Gay marriage”” debates in France and the United States’, in Public Culture, 13(2), pp.215-232, https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-215 File
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    • Baruch, Marc-Olivier (2013), ‘Gay marriage and the limits of French liberalism’, in Dissent, Fall

    • Further reading:  

       

      • McCaffrey, Enda (2005), The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France, Burlington: Ashgate 

      • Martel, Frédéric (2008), Le Rose et le Noir: les Homosexuels en France Depuis 1968, Paris : Points 

      • Pratt, Murray (1998), ‘The defence of the straight state: heteronormativity, AIDS in France, and the space of the nation’, in French Cultural Studies, 9, pp.263-280 

      • McCaffrey, Enda (2001), ‘The PaCS debate and the implications for universal equality in France’, in French Cultural Debates, Newark: University of Delaware Press 

      • Sibalis, Michael (2005), ‘Gay liberation comes to France: The Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR)’, in French History and Civilization, 1(1), pp.265-276  

      • Jackson, Julian (2009), Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS, Chicago:  Chicago University Press 


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