Suchergebnisse

Bodies of French Algerian law -- Polygamy, public order, and property -- Making the "Muslim family" -- Civilization, the Civil Code, and "child marriage" -- Special mœurs and military exceptions -- Conversion, mixed marriage, and the corporealization of law -- The sexual politics of legal reform -- Colonial literature and customary law -- Epilogue : sex and the centenary.

Cover -- Sexing the Citizen -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Regular Love and Republican Citizenship -- PART I AFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT -- 1. Moral Education, the Family, and the State -- 2. Liberal Discipline -- PART II THE BACHELOR'S VICE -- 3. Wasted Youth -- 4. Life and the Mind -- PART III ÉMILE DURKHEIM AND DESIRABLE REGULATION -- 5. The Limits of Desire -- 6. The Sacralization of Heterosexuality -- PART IV PRESERVING MEN -- 7. Venereal Consciousness and Society -- 8. Hygienic Citizens -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

In contemporary France, the problem of "immigrant youth"—French citizens, born to migrant parents, often from former French colonies—symbolizes the question of minority and national belonging. The development and disciplining of immigrants have, for several decades, formed the focus of sociological, anthropological, as well as political discourse, especially in the wake of the 2005 urban riots. Considering their case can help us to understand the history and the present-day predicament of "minority" in order to reimagine it beyond restrictive and racist frames.

This essay situates a recent French marriage annulment scandal in the context of debates about Islam, gender, and immigration; the relationship between the secularism of French law and Catholic marriage law; and the history of Muslim law under French colonial rule.

The Idea of the Self is a book which really made me think. Within the history of selfhood that it sets forth (and within which it is inscribed), this is precisely what a book about the self should do. For, as Seigel explains, reflectivity—our ability as selves to think critically about our own positions—is a constitutive, and pre-eminent, aspect or dimension of our selfhood. His work raises important questions about the normative implications of the ways in which we think about selfhood and how we attempt to write its history. As someone whose work has both addressed and been influenced by thinkers (such as Emile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida) that Seigel argues have an unsatisfying and overly abstract account of selfhood, these are provocative questions indeed. The Idea of the Self has, as a result, forced me to interrogate the normative assumptions that underlie my own research and writing.

A public scandal that followed the 2005 exhibition of Tanja Ostojić's remake of Courbet's L'origine du monde revealed the contemporary sexual politics of the European Union. This essay analyzes how what was at stake in this "obscenity" was not the sex but rather the sexualization of Europe that the politics of immigration entail. This explicit representation uncovered the logic of inclusion and exclusion that defines today the boundaries of sexual democracy.