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.

Autorentext
Julian Bourg Elaine Carey Deborah Cohen Lessie Jo Frazier Michelle Joffroy Luisa Passerini Steven Pierce Charles Sabatos Michael Sibalis Justin David Suran Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Michelle Zancarini-Fournel

Inhalt
Preface; L.Passerini Introduction; D.Cohen & L.J.Frazier PART I: '68 IN MOVEMENT Coming out against the War: Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam; J.D.Suran Deviant Masculinities: Mutual Caricaturizations of Students and the State in Mexico; E.Carey PART II: SUBJECTIVITY, DESIRE, AND POLITICS 'Our Sexual Revolution is not Yours': French Feminist 'Moralism' and the Limits of Desire; J.Bourg Africa and 1968: Derepression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation; S.Pierce Heroic Masculinity in the Prison and 'Women' in the Streets; D.Cohen & L.J.Frazier PART III: SPIRIT, ICONS, AWAKENINGS, POST-'68 The 'Burning Body' as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach; C.Sabatos Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of Mexico '68; M.Joffroy The Spirit of May '68 and the Gay Liberation Movement in France; M.Sibalis Comment; M.Zancarini-Fournel & J.Tzu-Chun Wu