Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

Sex talk and the post-Algerian history of France -- The far right and the reinvigoration of sexual orientalism in post-decolonization France -- May '68, "Arab perversion," and anti-Arab racism -- The Algerian revolution and Arab men in the fight for sexual revolution -- Homosociality, "human contact," and the specter of the Arab man in the post-'68 French gay world -- Prostitution and the Arab man, 1945-1975: Algerian pimps and the "takeover" of the "whores of France" -- Prostitution and the Arab man, 1962-1979: prostitutes, Arab clients, and "the traffic in white women" -- Power, resistance, and sodomy in post-Algerian France -- Rape as metaphor in the 1970s -- Rape as act in the 1970s -- The erotics of Algerian difference, 1979-2016