{"product_id":"sexagon-9780823274611","title":"Sexagon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In France today, sex is a matter of national identity: it provides a language to speak about those whose Frenchness is deemed problematic. Indeed, the gender and sexuality of these racialized 'Others'are the object of a proliferation of discourses. Mehammed Mack's original, rich, and precise contribution to a growing field of studies focuses on the multiplicity of cultural representations that both reflect and produce postcolonial France as a kaleidoscope of sexual obsessions - a 'sexagon.'\" -- -Eric Fassin Paris-8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Enter the Sexagon     Manipulations of Gay-Friendliness     Vocabularies of Race and Desire     The Sexualization of Ethnicity, Now and Then     Not Queer Enough     Sexual Nationalism and the Rape of Europa     The Banlieue as Laboratory     An Eventful Home Life     Exposing the Arab     The Sexagon          Chapter One: The Banlieue has a Gender: Competing Visions of Sexual Diversity     Banlieue Girl Gangs and Muslima soldiers     Ethnographic Obfuscation in the Homo-ghetto     Capitalizing on Banlieusard Homosexualities     The Banlieue as Maker, Not Cracked Mirror, of the Queer          Chapter Two: Constructing the Broken Family: The Draw for Psychoanalysis     The Juvenile Delinquent     Mother Enablers of a Male Islam     \"Be Careful What You Wish For\"     Historical Echoes of the Colonial Delinquent     The Veiled Woman     The Veil, the Clandestine, and the Public\/Private Distinction     The Impotent Father     Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Community Attachment          Chapter Three: Uncultured yet Seductive: The Trope of the Difficult Arab Boy     Sexuality, Ethnography, and Literature     Sexual Informants of Bad News     The Guardians of French Letters     Looking Hard     The Rehabilitation of Ethnic Virility     Atonement for Cross-Cultural Injury     The Arab Boy's Post-colonial Revenge          Chapter Four: Sexual Undergrounds: Cinema, Performance, and Ethnic Surveillance     Exposing the Clandestine, Intimately     Homosexualization and Acceptance     Rehabilitating Virility     The Sexualization of Authority     Big Brother is Watching You     Interpenetration of Communities     Sex Work, Immigrant Work, Travail d'Arabe     Image Control          Chapter Five: Erotic Solutions for Ethnic Tension: Fantasy, Reality, Pornography     Exploiting Exploitation     Stereotypes and Victimology     Francois Sagat, aka, \"Azzedine\"     The banlieue's Erotic Premises     From beur to beurette, a Political Loss     Domestic-Exotic Men          Conclusion: The Sexagon's Border Crisis          Acknowledgments          Notes          Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406147199319,"sku":"9780823274611","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823274611.jpg?v=1730494691","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sexagon-9780823274611","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}