A groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal in an officially raceblind France. What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a daily basis? #You Know You're Black in France When... responds to that question. Under the banner of universalism, France messages a powerful and seductive ideology of blindness to race that disappears blackened people and the antiblackness they experience. As Tricia Keaton notes, in everyday life, France is anything but raceblind. In this interdisciplinary study, drawn from a range of critical scholarship including that of Philomena Essed and Frantz Fanon, Keaton illuminates how b/Black (racialized/politicized) French people distinctly expose and refuse what she calls "raceblind republicanism." By officially turning a blind eye to the specificity of antiblackness, the French state in fact perpetuates it, she argues, along with structural racism. Through daily life, public policies, visual culture, the private lives of individuals and families shattered by police violence, the French courts where many are fighting back, and her own experiences, Keaton charts the troubling dynamics and continuities of antiblackness in French society.

Arno Klarsfeld is a French lawyer who retained his Israeli citizenship. He is also an avid animal rights activist as demonstrated by his recent book, "Souls and animals". His parents were known for their active pursuit of bringing Germans and French collaborators during the Nazi era to justice, and he has also been heavily involved with this cause. He is long-time friends with former President and First Lady Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. He has been inspired to fight for the humane treatment of animals particularly in light of recent scientific findings concerning not only the intelligence of animals, but their awareness and the emotional bonds they form with each other and with their human caregivers. A French equivalent to Peter Singers, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic to the Animal Movement.

With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016), Nate Parker's cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018), violent black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture. Yet the black avenger has always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three centuries. The black avenger channeled the fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by the European colonization project in the Americas. Even as he is portrayed as wholly Other, a heathen and a barbarian, his values: honor, loyalty, love, reflect his ties to the West. Yet being racially different, he cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among black people. The black avenger is thus a liminal figure defining racial borders. Where his body lies, lies the color line. Regularly throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and thwarting the constitution of a black polity. Grégory Pierrot's The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture studies this cultural history, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915. Pierrot argues that this Western archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts.

Black France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the horizons of belonging in postwar France as leaders contemplated the inclusion of France's old African empire in the new Europe-in-the-making. European integration intensified longstanding structural contradictions of French colonial rule in Africa: Would Black Africans and Black African Muslims be French? If so, would they then also be European? What would that mean for republican France and united Europe more broadly? Marker examines these questions through the lens of youth, amid a surprising array of youth and education initiatives to stimulate imperial renewal and European integration from the ground up. She explores how education reforms and programs promoting solidarity between French and African youth collided with transnational efforts to make young people in Western Europe feel more European. She connects a particular postwar vision for European unity which coded Europe as both white and raceless, Christian and secular to crucial decisions about what should be taught in African classrooms and how many scholarships to provide young Africans to study and train in France. That vision of Europe also informed French responses to African student activism for racial and religious equality, which ultimately turned many young francophone Africans away from France irrevocably. Black France, White Europe shows that the interconnected history of colonial and European youth initiatives is key to explaining why, despite efforts to strengthen ties with its African colonies in the 1940s and 1950s, France became more European during those years.

In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the black body and the black experience, and its own modes of visibility, invisibility, silence and amplification of black life. Maboula Soumahoro brings historical, intellectual, artistic, political and personal archives from the three continents into conversation. By weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of color-blindness, she highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. Africana is the name of that freedom. How can we build and reflect on a collective diasporic identity through a personal journey?What are the limits and possibilities of this endeavor, when the personal journey is that of oft-erased bodies and stories, de-humanized lives and when Black populations in Africa, the Americas and Europe identify and misidentify with each other, their sensibilities shaped by the particular locales in which their lives unfold? This book makes an important intellectual contribution to contemporary public conversations and theoretical inquiry into race, racism, blackness, and identity today, as it probes and questions the academic methodologies that have functioned as structures of exclusion. Dr. Soumahoro is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the Université François-Rabelais-Tours, France. She has been a visiting lecturer in Africana Studies at Barnard College and at the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University (New York). She received her PhD magna cum laude from the English Department of the Université de Tours Francois-Rabelais (France). She has also been a Visiting Scholar in the History Department and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. She has lectured and delivered papers in the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. Her current forthcoming projects include Black Peoples, Black Gods, a comparative historical analysis of the emergence of Rastafari and the Nation of Islam; Constructing Black France: A Transatlantic Dialogue, a collection of essays from the conference of the same title that she organized at Columbia University in April 2009; and an essay on “Maryse Condé’s Segu in Black Women’s Intellectual History,” edited by Farah Griffin, Barbara Savage, Mia Bay, and Martha Jones.

Christophe Tardieux uses simple text and drawings to recount dramatic events. By illustrating individual accounts of police violence in France with his powerful drawings and portraits, he denounces the impunity of the police. By telling the stories of 20 victims of racial, social and religious discrimination and abuse of power Rémédium opens our eyes to the verbal and physical aggression that operates in French society.

Sociologist Agnès De Féo uses her ten years of investigation into niqab users in France to enable us to discover their underlying motivations, far from the reductive clichés their detractors cite. Some have become radicalized by joining Syria or Iraq, while others have abandoned the niqab and the practice of Islam. This book, prefaced by Olivier Roy, a political scientist specializing in Islam, transcends appearances and offers us a plunge into the unsuspected intimacy of those who made the Republic tremble.

Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins ofcontemporary conflicts in race and empire in France's history. In Empire on the Seine, Prakash argues that the metropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to manage colonial and racial difference. With the North African community emerging as a sizable and durable presence in Paris after World War I, this policing became a key state practice in imagining and administering the immigrant population. Prakash shows that despite the French state's current reluctance to use race as an official category, racial thought and racial targets animated police services, social services, and urban planning schemes from the 1920s until the 1970s.Using police archival records, reports from colonial officials, urban planning and housing studies, and the records of French social workers and immigrant associations, Prakash shows that colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing assumed police functions for colonial and postcolonial migrants. In light of this history, contemporary social and racial segregation, periodic protests and rioting against police violence, and the aggressive posture of the Parisian police emerge as the material traces of French colonialism in the metropole. The city of Paris was the capital of an empire and its imperial shadows are long.

Faced with disaster on a planetary scale, a new environmental movement has emerged through climate marches, youth strikes and protests: Désobéissance Écolo Paris. This is the group behind the school strikes in Paris, and they believe we have already wasted too much time "asking arsonists to put out the fire". The inertia of this world does not call for a transition, but a rupture. To practice an ecology without transition consists in immediately interrupting the destructive work of the economy and consciously creating the world in which we want to live.

The book that, along with Vanessa Springora's Consent (Le Consentement) published in 2020,
blew open the shameful silence about the sexual abuse of minors in France External particularly committed by highly-regarded literary figures. The Familia Grande (La Familia grande) exposes the abuse of her twin brother at the age of 14 by her incestuous stepfather who hid behind his powerful allies in the French intellectual elite. These two powerful books finally lifted the silence in France on this too accepted practice and prompted the #metooincest movement to gain significant momentum that was long overdue.

In February 2017, Camille Kouchner gathered with family in Sanary-sur-Mer to bury her mother, who died with none of her five children present. Her passing would stir up old emotions, ultimately leading Camille to publicly confront a long-held and corrosive secret: her stepfather sexually abused her twin brother when they were adolescents. La Familia Grande poignantly explores the family dynamics of abuse, and the questions of guilt and shame surrounding it. Camille grapples with her own sense of responsibility and also considers the wider societal forces that have allowed such crimes to happen.

How does society and medicine respond to a person who asks to be helped to die? The debate pits supporters (a majority of French people) against opponents (including many caregivers) of the legalization of euthanasia or assisted suicide. However, the latter are indeed intended to take care of the former: are they reconcilable? What are their arguments, and what are they leaving out? Can the law resolve this ethical dilemma? This book by a doctor, who is also close to his patients, does not follow any of the paths laid out in advance – neither the dominant current, nor that of his colleagues. Drawing on philosophers, writers and cinema, it brings the contradiction to the heart of the words vulnerability, autonomy, dignity and even beneficence, and thus allows us to understand the great complexity inherent in the question of active assistance in dying. Torn for a long time, François Blot concludes with the primacy of listening to the patients.

Is feminism worn on a t-shirt? Is Kim Kardashian a sex object or a powerful woman? Can the Grey's Anatomy series change women's lives? French writer and social journalist Jennifer Padjemi questions the interdependent links between mass consumption and progressive ideology, and takes a joyful and lucid look at our entertainment, without concessions to patriarchy. In a documented, passionate and engaged first-person essay, Padjemi explores the alliance, for better or for worse, of feminism and pop culture. By taking up the thread of modern feminist movements, from the emergence of an intersectional feminism to the “body positive” movement via Me too and based on her experience as a black woman, she dissects the relationship we have with objects—popular cultural events, video clips, mainstream songs ,TV series. Our consumption of entertainment shapes, supports, and sometimes challenges our vision of the world. Using pop culture as a mirror of our globalized society, the author questions through it feminism, gender, sexuality and intersectionality.

A French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites. France, the romanticized, revolutionary land with an enlightened historical mission--Liberty, Equality, Fraternity for all--is failing its own citizens and its admirers around the world. How did the country get here, and what can be done about it? In Fixing France, Nabila Ramdani assesses the fault lines in her struggling nation with unflinching clarity and originality. The makeshift Fifth Republic, which emerged from the cataclysmic Algerian War of Independence, has produced extremism. Constitutional reform is urgently needed: an all-powerful monarchical president displays little interest in democracy, while a mainstream far-right party founded by Nazi collaborators threatens to deliver a head of state. Segregated suburbs, institutionalized rioting, economic injustice, a monolithic education system, the debasement of women, deep-seated racial and religious discrimination, paramilitary policing, terrorism, and a duplicitous foreign policy all fuel the growing crisis. Ramdani's critique is stark but provides real hope: the broken French Republic can and must be fixed.

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles. Flip the Script offers a close look at the role of hip hop in Europe, where it has become a politically powerful and commercially successful form of expression for the children and grandchildren of immigrants from former colonies. Through analysis of recorded music and other media, as well as interviews and fieldwork with hip hop communities, J. Griffith Rollefson shows how this music created by black Americans is deployed by Senegalese Parisians, Turkish Berliners, and South Asian Londoners to both differentiate themselves from and relate themselves to the dominant culture. By listening closely to the ways these postcolonial citizens in Europe express their solidarity with African Americans through music, Rollefson shows, we can literally hear the hybrid realities of a global double consciousness.

This academic (advanced-level French) work articulates the concepts of Francophonie, postcolonialism and globalization. It examines the place of French-speaking literatures within the framework of globalization while broadening the reflection to non-specifically French-speaking phenomena. It links the cultures of decolonization, immigration and globalization where French can still be heard. Table of Contents: La Francophonie et au-delà; Littérature-Monde, Weltliteratur; Partages d'espaces à l'ére de la mondialisation; Transculturalité et hybridité; Du Récit de voyage colonial; au travelogue postcolonial; Route des indes à rebours ou la "désorientation"; De l'histoire atlantique; à La littérature "Transatlantique";L'histoire subalterniste au filtre de quelques romans du monde indien; Faire parler une esclave noire du XVII siècle; Relire l'archive coloniale à contre-fil; Pour une écocritique postcoloniale; Écrire l'animal postcolonial; Conclusion générale.

At the end of the 1980s, some young people from the most underprivileged neighborhoods of LA heard music that revolutionized the recording industry and shocked the world. A music whose name is gangsta rap. In this book, French journalist and political speech writer Pierre-Yves Bocquet (aka Pierre Evil) tells how Los Angeles gangsta rap stars- Ice-T, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and 2Pac - suddenly brought the brutal reality of black American ghettos to the very heart of the international charts; how their vulgar and violent songs were so visionary and intoxicating; and how, in their own way, they reinvented in the era of crack and gang warfare this hedonistic and sunny utopia that has been called the Californian Dream for more than a century. Controversial in some circles for lack of rigor in research, an interesting perspective on the international music culture. Pierre-Yves Bocquet still studies differences between American and French recognition of the Hip-Hop Movement in mass culture.

The urban ghetto is both a cage and a cocoon. The inhabitants who are relegated there have developed within its walls a particular way of life, a counter-world which protects them collectively from the external society but which constitutes a handicap for each one. Together, they work to make a universe from which they individually try to escape. Reinforcement of urban segregation and racial discrimination, considerable increase in unemployment and poverty, social organization specific to segregated neighborhoods, breakdown in communication between the sexes and endemic use of violence: the ghetto has indeed become a reality French, as Didier Lapeyronnie demonstrates.

The hijab is arguably the most discussed and controversial item of women's clothing today. It has become the primary global symbol of female Muslim identity for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, and is the focus of much debate in the confrontation between Islam and the West. Nowhere has this debate been more acute or complex than in France. In "Hijab and the Republic", Bronwyn Winter provides a riveting account of the controversial 2003 French law to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools. While much has been written on the subject, Winter offers a unique feminist perspective, carefully delineating its political and cultural aspects. To understand the current controversy, the author traces the history of secularism in France and the shift in interpretations of Islam before turning to a review of the more recent past. Drawing on both scholarly literature and popular commentary, she examines the headscarf debate from its inception in 1989 through fluctuations in its intensity in public consciousness over the 1990s to its surging significance in the wake of 9/11 and the consequent shift in global politics. Winter argues convincingly that the issue must be understood within the specific historical and cultural context of France and through a feminist lens, since gender is fundamental to the debate about veiling Muslim women. "Hijab and the Republic" presents a fresh and richly detailed examination of a subject that remains at the forefront of discussion about Islam and the West.

Identités Française questions notions of marginalization and national identity through an analysis of French banlieues. The display of the quotidian, at the expense of the extraordinary, invites the reader to reconsider the most common images of these urban peripheries and the processes that create citizenship and marginality in republican France. The focus is on the female experience, in works produced by writers and artists from these peripheries. Banlieue women sit at the intersection of marginalities of race, gender and class. The study of these intersections illuminates multiple notions of identity, belonging and peripheralization. Amid the contemporary flare-ups and debates around a single and indivisible French national identity, Mame-Fatou Niang's work brings to light plural identities rooted in France's suburban spaces.

The feminist book they tried to ban in France. 'A delightful book' says Roxane Gay. Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.) But what if mistrusting men, disliking men - and yes, maybe even hating men - is, in fact, a useful response to sexism? What if such a response offers a way out of oppression, a means of resistance? What if it even offers a path to joy, solidarity and sisterhood? In this sparkling essay, as mischievous and provocative as it is urgent and serious, Pauline Harmange interrogates modern attitudes to feminism and makes a rallying cry for women to find a greater love for each other - and themselves. [Moi les hommes, je les déteste]

Barbara Stiegler is an associate professor of political philosophy and the director of the Soin, éthique et santé ("Care, Ethics, and Health") masters program at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. She is also a member of the Institut universitaire de France, a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that honors professors for their research excellence. Stiegler is a specialist in German philosophy and has authored three books: Nietzsche et la biologie (Presses universitaires de France, 2001), Nietzsche et la critique de la chair (Presses universitaires de France, 2005) and "Il faut s'adapter": Sur un nouvel impératif politique (Gallimard, 2019).

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a "brilliant, well-documented" celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society's seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct heirs to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who seek to live their lives on their own terms. See also her recent publication, Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelle.

This book is available in both French and English editions. A window on the world's most stylish city, with more than 100 full-color photos and profiles of 20 diverse and inspiring Parisian women, by a former editor in chief of French Elle "We've always been crazy in love with this city...We love its arrogance, its clumsiness, its simplicity. And especially the women who live here." Two quintessential Parisian women—model and fashion designer Jeanne Damas and journalist Lauren Bastide—shine a spotlight on twenty real-life women of Paris, dispelling the myth that there's only one type of Parisian woman, and introducing us to the city in which real Parisiennes live. They're booksellers, singers, writers, activists, and antique dealers; they live in small studios, spacious apartments, or houseboats; their ages range from fourteen to seventy...and all embody the effortless chic and insouciant spirit of the legendary Parisian woman. In Paris takes us into these women's lives, telling us about their careers, families, favorite nightlife spots, shopping habits, and beloved books and films. Full-color photos taken by Jeanne herself accompany charming lists of advice on the French art de vivre—from the best places to people-watch with a glass of wine after work, to the perfect Parisian playlist to the ten things that a French woman would never, ever, post on Instagram. Witty, elegant, and modern, In Paris is an ode to Paris through the eyes of its eternally cool women—for everyone who has ever dreamed of one day living in Paris. For French edition do an author search. [À Paris]

Hakim El Karoui is Senior Fellow of Institut Montaigne. He is the author of the report “A French Islam is possible” and “New Arab World, New ‘Arab Policy’ for France”. He manages his company of strategic consulting, Volentia. He taught at the Lumière University in Lyon, before working for the Prime Minister’s cabinet. After working at the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance, Hakim worked at the Rothschild bank starting in 2006. In 2011, he joined the strategy consulting firm Roland Berger where he was co-responsible for Africa and for advising the French government. He is also an essayist and a social entrepreneur (he created the Club du 21ème siècle and the Young Mediterranean Leaders program). Hakim El Karoui graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds an ‘Agrégation’ in Geography.

Camille Kouchner is a French lawyer and university lecturer who has become a voice for victims of incest by raising awareness to the incest in a prominent French family—her own. This exposed the grim reality behind the sexual abuse of minors in France External particularly committed by highly-regarded literary figures. She accuses her stepfather of sexually abusing her twin brother in his teenage years. The so-called "Big Family" of the title refers symbolically to the left-leaning cultural elite that she claims protects its own to the detriment of those they have exploited and wronged. Despite her fear of repercussions, her bold step has broken a silence on the taboo of discussing incest and has helped many victims feel that they can discuss their painful and negated pasts. The hashtag #MeTooInceste has taken off, and President Emmanuel Macron has personally lauded "the courage of a sister who could no longer keep quiet." He condemned "a silence built by criminals and successive acts of cowardice".

Discusses the landscape of environmentalism in France today and the complicated number of questions and differences in opinion that make progress difficult.

"A major figure in feminism and anti-racism, Rokhaya Diallo has become an essential voice in the fight against oppression in France and in the world. Committed to the fight against racism and sexism, she questions French society and, from her singular position, confronts it. Black or Muslim feminism, Islamophobia and the diversion of secularism, white fragility, French identity and injunction to assimilation, state racism and police harassment, colonial memory, popular cultures, American cinema and series. If Rokhaya Diallo's analyses touch her readers with so much power, it is because she manages to to link the political and the private, the body and the State, the unraveling of oppressions and the accompaniment of emancipations." From book jacket. Contents: 1. Racisme systémique et fragilité blanche — Supprimer le mot "race" de la constitution française : une décision dangereuse — A-t-on le droit de parler de racisme d'État ? — Pourquoi le racisme anti-Blancs n'existe pas — Le #sparadrapgate montre comment les spécificités physiques des noires sont ignorées en France — Merci de respecter les cheveux des Noires et des Noirs — Avançons main dans la main — 2. L'identité française en question — La France, tu l'aimes ou tu la fermes! — Français d'origine étrangère, nous refusons d'être la variable d'ajustement de l'élection présidentielle — Pourquoi la couleur de peau des champions du monde a-t-elle tant d'importance ? — Faut-il être un superhéros pour être un migrant acceptable en France ? — 3. Une islamophobie obsessionnelle — Ce que dévoile l'affaire Baby Loup — Voile : une obsession bien française — L'obsession française pour les femmes musulmanes vise le contrôle et non la libération — 4. État sécuritaire, révoltes, répression — Zyèd et Bouna, enfants sacrifiés de la République — Contrôles au faciès : il faut contrôler les contrôles d'identité — Quand la France reconnaîtra-t-elle un racisme systémique dans la police ? — France : vers l'institutionnalisation d'un état policier — Gilets jaunes : la colère populaire n'est jamais élégante — Les Gilets jaunes portent un nouvel éclairage sur les violences policières — Contre les discriminations, ne tirez pas sur Internet — L'anonymat, un précieux outil démocratique — 5. Femmes, féminisme — Non, le sexisme, ce n'est pas les "autres"! — Le voile n'est pas incompatible avec le féminisme — Femmes noires en politique : la citoyenneté sous conditions — La non-mixité, un outil politique indispensable — Ni putes ni voilées — Après Cologne, interroger les sources de la violence sexuelle — 6. Les États-Unis : un miroir du monde ? — Martin Luther King n'était pas le doux rêveur que tout le monde célèbre aujourd'hui — Mad Men, ma série bien aimée — Black Lives Matter, un nouveau souffle pour les voix des Noirs — Donald Trump ou le triste visage du communautarisme blanc — Rachel Dolezal : fausse noire et privilège blanc — 7. Cultures plurielles — Cannes au masculin — Les Oscars : César de l'inégalité — Les nouveaux visages du cinéma français — Pourquoi Apu, le personnage des Simpson est-il devenu insupportable ? — Débattre de l'appropriation culturelle sans s'ériger en police vestimentaire — Qui seront les super héros du XXIe siècle ?

Marlène Schiappa is a French writer and politician, serving as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, in the Castex government of President Emmanuel Macron since July 2020. Jérémie Peltier is director of studies at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and director of the "Suspension" collection at Editions de l'Aube. Table of Contents: I. La laïcité: le bien commun d'une nation unique, d'un peuple unique II. La laïcité, condition de l'exercice des droits des femmes III. L'école républicaine: espace de respiration laïque IV. Services publics: laïcité, garantie d'un même service pour toutes et tous V. Laïcité, blasphème et caricatures VI. Laïcité, hédonisme et "droit au péché" VII. Conclusion.

Hélène Merlin-Kajman is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). She has written novels as well as academic works. This recent publication discusses new questions that come from studying literature in the time of the #metoo movement. Updated values have brought into question how to study past writings that offend modern sensibilities and deeply offend the modern audience. How do we grapple with such writings, and even more importantly, how do we treat the still-living authors who were darlings of the intellectual elite when their behavior has proved criminal or very likely abusive? The 2020 Gabriel Matzneff case raised the question of how to treat the artists and their work when they have behaved reprehensibly. This text claims to examine the complicated issue objectively—neither skewing to the side of "politically-correct progressivism" which asks for "trigger warnings", nor by turning a blind eye to the blatant abuse of power by artists who have used their privileged position to exploit minors, hiding under the cover of their elite status as artists—an issue that has come up in retrospect with other artists, from Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov to American film director Woody Allen.

Since the birth of the Fifth Republic, the French state has been waging a latent war against part of its population. Young people from working-class neighborhoods descended from postcolonial immigration undergo an operation, repeated daily, of "de-infantisation": they are not treated as children but as threats to the survival of the system. How many of them died because of this de-infantization? How many were killed by the police with impunity? How many mothers have mourned their children who were victims of racist crimes in court?
Based on the struggles led by the Folles of Place Vendôme in the 1980s, as well as the battles of the Mother's Front today, Fatima Ouassak shows, in this combative and hopeful book, the political potential of mothers. By systematically showing solidarity with their children, by refusing to play a buffer role between them and the violence of institutions, in short, by ceasing to be a force of social appeasement and relays of the unequal system, they will in turn become threats to the established order. This book aims to offer a political alternative supported by mothers, around a broken parenthood combining academic success and dignity, and an ecological project of territorial reconquest. Its message is truly revolutionary: by breaking the social pact of temperance which binds them in spite of themselves to the oppressive system, mothers will turn into dragons.

A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency. A political novice leading a brand new party, in 2017 Emmanuel Macron swept away traditional political forces and emerged as president of France. Almost immediately he realized his task was not only to modernize his country but to save the EU and a crumbling international order. From the decline of NATO, to Russian interference, to the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protestors, Macron's term unfolded against a backdrop of social conflict, clashing ambitions, and resurgent big-power rivalries. In The Last President of Europe, William Drozdiak tells with exclusive inside access the story of Macron's presidency and the political challenges the French leader continues to face. Macron has ridden a wild rollercoaster of success and failure: he has a unique relationship with Donald Trump, a close-up view of the decline of Angela Merkel, and is both the greatest beneficiary from, and victim of, the chaos of Brexit across the Channel. He is fighting his own populist insurrection in France at the same time as he is trying to defend a system of values that once represented the West but is now under assault from all sides. Together these challenges make Macron the most consequential French leader of modern times, and perhaps the last true champion of the European ideal.

This book grapples with the ethics of consent between minors and adults in sexual relationships, and the abuse of power often exercised by the literary elite in France over minors and students under the guise of being mentors or muses. It exposed the grim reality behind the sexual abuse of minors in France External particularly committed by highly-regarded literary figures. Springora was seduced at a young age by the celebrated writer Gabriel Matzneff who in 1974 wrote openly and to wide acclaim about his attraction to young girls and boys in his defense of pedophilia, Les moins de seize ans or Under 16.

In this, her first book, she describes her experience and the lifetime impact this relationship had, and questions the ethics of how France not only tolerates, but indulges these relationships. Matzneff wrote for many years about pedophilia. Springora writes, "For so many years, I have been circling in my cage, my dreams are filled with murder and revenge. Until the day when the solution finally presents itself, there, before my eyes, as obvious: to take the hunter in his own trap, to lock him in a book." Seduced at the age of fourteen by a famous fifty-something writer, Vanessa Springora portrays, three decades later, the hold that was exercised over her and the lasting mark of this relationship throughout her life as a woman. Beyond her intimate story, in this book she questions the excesses of an era and of a literary microcosm blinded by talent and notoriety. A phenomenal book translated into twenty-two languages ​​and currently in the process of being adapted into a film. It inspired many other victims to come forward including Camille Kouchner, who wrote a brave account (The Familia Grande, 2021) about her twin brother who was sexually abused by their stepfather as a young 14 year old boy and about the complicity and disapproval of the adults around her after the crime had been exposed publicly. France has since begun to examine these shameful abuses of power by the elite literary men of Paris with less lenience and public opinion and momentum against incest and pedophilia is shaping new stricter laws about these crimes and abuses.

Alice Coffin is a French journalist and lesbian activist. Her field of expertise is the study of media coverage of LGBTI issues. Table of Contents: 1. Adrophobie: Une lesbienne à l'Élysée; 2. Instantanés de la grande scène patriarcale, La Barbe!: Compétents ou compatibles?; L'homme et l'artiste ou L'artiste est l'homme?; Arts et standards; La molle farandole; Cotte de mailles féministe 3. Journalistes, vous avez un cul!: Neutralité, objectivité, virilité; Salles de rédaction, salles blanches et salles stériles; "La neutralité nést pas une option pour couvrir Trump"; Journalitantisme; Accountability 4. La placardologie française; Ces stars françaises qui refusent de faire leur coming out;"Les médias sont l'industrie chargée de verrouiller les portes du placard";Role models;Communautés, au placard!; Spectaculariser la vie privée; La faiblesse militante; Alcoolique non anonyme; Stand up, come out! 5. Lesbiennes d'intérêt général: The L Word; Les meilleures militantes du monde; La menace lesbienne; Qui a peur de la PMA?; Le corps lesbien; Butchs; Gouines Théorie; Le Pulp; Un gazon à soi 6. La guerre des hommes: Le sacrilège du "les"; Quand on accuse une féministe d'exagérer; Dominique, Bertrand, Denis, Roman, Luc et les autre; Les pervers pépères du cinéma; Pour en finir avec l'androbsession; Remerciement.

Where are we in our relationship with animals and nature in France? What are the elements that have prompted man to behave in this way with the other species he encounters on the planet? After having answered these questions, this work approaches the type of relations which we maintain with various categories of animals: wild fauna (hunting, trapping, fishing), the great predators (lynx, wolf, bears) and domesticated animals (pets, bullfighting, fur, vivisection, farm animals, industrial fishing). Faced with this less than rosy observation, avenues for reflection aim to modify our behavior in order to change our relationship with animals and nature.

Three years ago, Rebecca Amsellem created the feminist newsletter Les Glorieuses, which questions the notion of equality within our society every week through themes such as politics, culture or gender. In the twenty chronicles of this book, the author combines personal and even intimate experiences and activist remarks in order to provoke a deep reflection on the place of women. The book honors Olympe de Gouges, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery, Marguerite Durand, who launched La Fronde (the first daily newspaper designed and edited by women), but also Nina Simone, Virginia Woolf and so many other figures who have marked history. They are the Glorious, as Rebecca Amsellem reminds us. They and all the others, because there are as many feminisms as there are women. Table of Contents: Avant-propos; Isabella et moi; Un demi piment si tout va bien; Jeune, surdouée et noire; Personne n'est parfaite; On recommence quand?; Non mais je rêve!; Un col roulé peut en cacher un autre; Marianne à l'Opéra; Il était une fois; Hommes sans filtre; Mauvais vin et poulet frit; Dernière danse; J'ai un milliard de soeurs; Pause clope; En avoir ou pas; Zone grise; Prendre un bain et faire la révolution; J'ai failli perdre mon oeil pour du Safran; Le pacte; Tiens-toi droite!; Sources.

Born between the 1980s and 2000s, the generation of Millennials grew up in a world where the egalitarian frame of reference prevails: this also has effects on female nationalist activism. In May 2018, the French Nationalist Party posted a video entitled “Nationalisme : militer avec féminité à la cuisine”. After a first sequence where young women dressed in long skirts cook and do the dishes while singing religious praises, we see them in shorts training to run in a muddy torrent under the instructions of an activist, with background music of overdriven electric guitars.

The "Manif pour tous", which violently opposed the law brought by Christiane Taubira (in 2012-2013) aimed at opening up marriage to homosexual couples, was an opportunity for many (future) far-right actors to to meet, to form and to aggregate. A few years later, we see the emergence in this field of multiple women's groups, even self-proclaimed feminists, which address the cause of women from a nationalist, reactionary or identity tradition. Whether they are calledles Caryatides, les Antigone ou le collectif Némésis, Eugénie Bastié, Marianne Durano ou la revue Limite, they all contribute to reconfiguring a media and political field that is increasingly anchored to the right.

This volume discusses the often overlooked and under-valued genre of children's literature. Kodjo Attikpoé is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. This collection of essays edited by Attikpoé, a specialist in Francophone literatures, is drawn from a symposium under the same title held at the University of Ottawa 31 May–3 June 2015, organized by the Association des Professeurs de Français des Universités et Collèges Canadiens (APFUCC). Divided into three major sections, the volume gathers twelve articles that aim to explain the role of children's literature, its thematic diversity, and its reception. This volume yields promising directions for the study of the genre, as the twelve contributions address picturebooks, novels, and children's drama, and raise the following pressing issues: What characterizes a book for children? What types of readers does it target? Which stylistic forms may it encompass? How do we value children's books and why? Is it high literature? Does it purely entertain the child or does it teach existential lessons where the child needs to be engaged? Who are the protagonists and how do they address questions of gender and race? What is human nature? What is inhuman?

Ce volume explore la double question des pouvoirs de la littérature de jeunesse et de ses modalités formelles. Pourquoi parler ici de pouvoirs au pluriel de cette littérature? Car l'on a très souvent tendance à la réduire à sa vocation pédagogique en vertu de laquelle elle continue de faire l'objet de diverses manipulations. Certes, toute littérature, qu'elle soit adressée aux adultes ou au jeune public, remplit la fonction de plaire et d'instruire. Toutefois, en ce qui concerne la littérature de jeunesse, l'aspect didactique est mal compris, ce qui donne lieu à une vision excessivement simplificatrice de cette production. Cet ouvrage s'attache à montrer que la fonction instructive de l'oeuvre pour la jeunesse, à l'instar de la littérature générale, se manifeste sous des formes complexes et variées: méditations sur l'existence humaine, engagement, projet axiologique, constructions mémorielles, ambition thérapeutique, renouvellement des procédés esthétiques. [The Power of Children's Literature]

Amel Boubekeur is a French-Algerian researcher. She was a resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Prior to joining Carnegie she was head of the Islam and Europe Programme at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. She is a research fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and has taught at the École Normale Supérieure and the Stanford University Center in Paris. Her research focuses on Maghreb country politics, Euro–Arab relations, and Islam in Europe. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and is a regular consultant for various United Nations agencies, the European Commission, and the Open Society Institute. Preface to this work by Farhad Khosrokhavar.

Does “wokism” constitute a new ideological configuration whose formidable effects should be examined? Alain Policar demonstrates on the contrary that anti-“wokism” is deployed as a new avatar of a reactionary offensive. It shows that the academic and societal promotion of “wokism” has many similarities with the quarrels that preceded it (without having disappeared), those of political correctness and Islamo-leftism. All obey the same logic of designating a supposed enemy, an enemy from within but complicit with those who, outside of “Western civilization”, would seek to undermine its foundations. “Wokism” therefore makes it possible to disqualify all protest forces from minority populations, accused, among other grievances, of hypersensitivity. It is not impossible to think that the main objective of anti-"Wokism", jointly pursued by political power and the academic right, is to combat the influence of critical currents within social science research. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that the “wokism” trial is initiated against all those who question the established order, who are attentive to social justice, the condition of women and that of racialized minorities. In this trial, the prosecutors sometimes appropriate the themes (in particular by demanding their attention to injustices, inequalities or discrimination) and the vocabulary of the accused to empty them of their meaning. It is important not to be fooled by such usurpation. [Unofficial translation from publisher]

French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from the perspective of bothpreceding and subsequent "waves" of feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures have come into play. Edited and written by an international group of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a vitalmoment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist politics and culture.

Kahina Bahloul was born in 1979 to a French mother and an Muslim Berber father from the Kabyle region of Algeria. She moved to Paris at 22 to study Islamology. She is now France's first female imam. Her book reflects her views that there is nothing in the Quran that forbids a woman from becoming an Imam.

In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city. The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are, in all their complexity. Featuring 50 activists like Lauren Bastide (journalist and podcaster), Elisa Rojas (lawyer and disability-rights activist), Rokhaya Diallo (journalist, filmmaker and antiracist activist), Rebecca Amsellem (author and creator of Les Glorieuses), Clémence Zamora Cruz (Inter-LGBT spokesperson and trans activist); creators like Aline Asmar d'Amman, Elena Rossini, Inna Modja, Amélie Viaene, Ajiri Aki, Victoire de Taillac, educators, visionaries, and disruptors—like Leïla Slimani and Mayor Anne Hidalgo—the book reveals Paris as a blossoming cultural center of feminine power. Both the featured women and Tramuta herself offer up favorite destinations and women-owned businesses, including beloved shops, artistic venues, bistros, and more. Tramuta also host a podcast called The New Paris. The New Parisienne showcases "Parisianness" in all its multiplicity, highlighting those who are bucking tradition, making names for themselves, and transforming the city. For French edition do an author search. [La nouvelle Parisienne: les femmes et les idées qui font Paris avec Rebecca Amsellem, Lauren Bastide, Rokhaya Diallo, Dr. Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, Anne Hidalgo, Delphine Horvilleur, Elisa Rojas and Leïla Slimani...]

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.

A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes "a path to hope," leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an ignorance of history. For the authors, 20th-century fascism was no mere abstraction—it was a brutal system brought on by a similar malaise, a system they fought against. This gives their book special urgency. The Path to Hope is written by two esteemed French thinkers—94-year-old Stephane Hessel and 90-year-old Edgar Morin—following on the heels of Hessel's Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage!). Both books have become bestsellers in France and throughout Europe. Both have also become foundational documents underpinning the worldwide protest movement of which Occupy Wall Street is the American subset. Translated from the French by Antony Shugaar ; with a foreword by Jeff Madrick. For French edition do an author search. [Chemin de l'espérance]

Former actress and celebrity Brigitte Bardot has spent close to 50 years championing the cause of animal welfare. She has expressed not only the calm that animals have provided her in her tumultuous life but has explained how she can relate to the feeling of being hunted. Her activism is not without some controversy as some of her causes have put her at odds with authorities and with local French communities. Her despair over the brutality of the human race if evident in her many interviews and publications.

Thérèse Jacob-Hargot is a Belgian-born essayist and sexologist who practices in France. She also published "Une Jeunesse sexuellement libérée (ou presque)" [A sexually liberated youth (or almost)] in 2016. Jacob-Hargot has controversial opinions that often make both feminists and conservatives uncomfortable. She has been called an alter-feminist along with Eugénie Bastié. She advocates for women to define their identity on their own terms, not by adopting and emulating the same attitudes and outlooks of men. She encourages the natural "rhythm method of contraception" rather than the hormonal approach of "the pill", and seeks a less dismissive attitude toward motherhood within the feminist label—counter to the inherited feminism of Simone de Beauvoir. Table of Contents: I. État des lieux 1."Faire l'amour", un mode de relation en voie de disparition 2. Le gentil, le macho et le porc 3. Faire l'amour sans avoir un enfant, avoir un enfant sans faire l'amour 4. Les nouveaux McDo du sexe 5. De l'amour au polyamour II. Causes 6. Pouvoir baiser comme un homme, c'est être féministe, vraiment? 7. Dominez la mère (terre) et soumettez-la! 8. Ce que femme veut, le médicin le veut 9. L'ouverture du supermarché médical 10. La pilule, l'oeuvre d'une triple alliance III. Alternative 11. Un savoir de femmes sur la fertilité, véritable emblème féministe 12. Une méthode zéro déchet, une sexualité écologiquement correct 13. Reconnecter les femmes élevées hors sol 14. D'une sexualité pulsionnelle 15. Les hommes sont des chevaliers qui s'ignorent 16. Lâcher prise avec la maternité 17. La cohérence comme vertu 18. Femmes puissantes 19. Si je n'ai pas l'amour, je ne suis rien Conclusion: avant-gardisme.

In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’? In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality.
By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation. Available in English Translation [Who is Charlie]

Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France argues that the way France displayed its colonized peoples in the twentieth century continues to inform how minority authors and artists make immigrants and racial and ethnic minority populations visible in contemporary France. Civilized into the civilizing mission: the gaze, colonization, and exposition coloniale children's comics -- Self-spectacularization and looking back on French history -- Writing, literary Sape, and reading in Mabanckou's Black Bazar -- Looking back on Afropea's Origins: Léonora Miano's Blues pour Elise as an Afropean mediascape -- Anti-white racism without races: French rap, whiteness, and disciplinary institutionalized spectacularism. [Available Electronically]

Women have a history, a history of struggles for their rights, conquered, torn away, defended, a history of anger against discrimination, inequalities. In "Rage against the machismo” French historian Mathilde Larrère traces the feminist struggles of the French Revolution until the #MeToo movement of today, in the footsteps of Louise Michel, Gisèle Halimi, but also so many other invisible others, like Pauline Léon (from the French Revolution), Malika El Fassi, and "les colleuses contre les féminicides", the women who create collages in public spaces to rally against feminicides. These collages take the form of sentences with black letters written on white sheets and pasted on the walls of buildings or houses. They are designed to attract attention, make the public react to and sensitize them to violence against women, more particularly gender-based and sexual violence, as well as family and pedophile violence. The book mixes stories, period documents, songs and slogans, reflecting the ardor and determination of those who do not accept gender inequality, showing how they support and build on each other beyond the centuries. Struggles for equality, the right to vote, to be educated, to defend themselves, to govern their own bodies, but also for the emancipation of the women of the colonies: so many fields where the freedom of women has been scoffed at. Contents: Le peuple souverain — Nous qui sommes sans passé, les femmes, nous qui n'avons pas d'histoire — L'histoire de l'histoire des femmes — Herstory — Le test de Bechdel-Wallace — Femme, réveille-toi ! — Citoyennes ! — L'universel en trompe-l'oeil — Les droits de la femme et de la citoyenne — Citoyennes tricoteuses — Le port de la culotte — Le nouvel ordre des sexes — Le Code écrase la femme — Hubertine Auclert, "Les contrats de mariage" — Du piédestal domestique à l'asile de folles — Prostitution : des filles qui ne sont pas à la noce — Tract du Groupe Femmes, 14e arrondissement de Paris, 1975 — Émeutières, pas ménagères ! — Les femmes des barricades — Ne me libère, pas je m'en charge ! — À toutes celles qui tenaient la tranchée — Le droit à l'instruction — Louise Michel, extraits d'écrits féministes — La femme doit voter — Toutes suffragettes — La femme doit voter — Non à l'Assemblée "natio-mâle" — Les 24 avril et 8 mai 1910 à l'assaut des urnes ! — Florilège des raisons bien pourries opposées aux femmes qui voulaient voter ou être élues — À celle qui est plus inconnue que le soldat inconnu — Les femmes, ça part pas, ça meurt à petits feux — Le chemin des dames en lutte ! — Les femmes n'ont été que les domestiques de la guerre — Rosie la riveteuse — La femme du soldat inconnu — Prolétaires de tous les pays, qui lave vos chaussettes? — Les femmes ont toujours travaillé ! — Travailleuses en lutte pour leurs droits — Métro, boulot, berceau — Osez, osez, Joséphine — La chanson des Penn Sardin (2005) — Sexes, races, luttes et colonies — Les colonies au prisme du genre — Dévoilez ce hai'k que nous ne saurions voir — Décoloniales et féministes — Solitude, femme debout! — Djamila Bouhired — Un enfant si je veux, quand je veux ! — Occupe-toi de tes prières, on s'occupe de nos ovaires — Mon corps, mon droit, mon choix — Je n'enfanterai pas dans la douleur ! — Manifeste des 343, paru dans Le Nouvel Observateur n° 334 du 5 avri1 1971 — #MeToo — Pénis partout, justice nulle part — Quand une femme dit non, c'est non! — Pour que la peur change de camp — Viol conjugal, viol légal — Manifeste contre le viol, Libération, le 16 juin 1976 — "Douce Maison", Anne Sylvestre, 1978 — Notre corps, nous-mêmes — Ne me touche pas, je m'en charge ! — Bois mes règles — Utérus, vagin, clitoris même combat! — #PayeTonUtérus — Mon costume dit à l'homme : "Je suis ton égale" — Tee Corinne, Cunt Coloring Book, 1975 — Chronologie (depuis 1791).

Jim Wolfreys is senior lecturer in French and European politics, King's College London. He is the co-author (with Peter Fysh) of The Politics of Racism in France (Palgrave, 2003).

Revisioning French Culture brings together a striking group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects. Revisioning French Culture grapples with topics vital to the contemporary cultural landscape, including universalism, globalization, the idea of Francophonie, and religious and secular identity. This essay collection furthermore transcends and illuminates the contemporary by delving into matters that have long resonated in the humanities and letters, such as death, war, trauma, power and politics, notions of the truth, conceptions of the self, and modes of reading and writing. With contributions by a number of figures known across the humanities and the social sciences, Revisioning French Culture explores the foundations of the French and Francophone world, providing cultural, political, and historical context for the crisis facing democracy and liberalism around the world today. These essays were assembled in honor of Lawrence D. Kritzman, whose writing and editorial work in French studies inspired the wide-ranging themes examined here.

Delphine Horvilleur is one of the leading intellectuals of her generation. She worked as a journalist in NYC and studied Hebrew but returned to France and became editorial director of the journal Tenouá. She is one of only four women rabbis in France. She became a rabbi in NYC in 2008, but it is not yet an easy process in France. She continues to write and insists that "being a woman, Jewish, and a rabbi is not a transgression because no one can define Judaism." She is an advocate for women's rights, and fights against racism and anti-Semitism. Table of Contents: Intro: "Les Juifs m'excèdent" 1. L'antisèmitisme est une rivalité familiale 2. L'antisèmitisme est un combat de civilisation 3. L'antisèmitisme est une guerre des sexes 4. L'antisèmitisme est une bataille électorale 5. L'exception juive.

In a country that sanctifies wine and rarely discusses alcoholism, this is a the journey of a woman who dares to question the role that alcohol plays not only in her personal life, but in the society in which she lives. One of the first French books on the sobriety movement, Claire Touzard realized she had been over-indulging in alcohol since her teenage years—partly to escape from her discomfort with the expectations put upon women and to in fact feel more empowered to join this more out-going and masculine world. However, she came to find (after quitting drinking on New Year's Eve of 2019) that her sobriety is empowering and even subversive—particularly in France where it is still an anomaly. She hopes to open up a dialog on the topic of alcohol and to see more appealing role models for those struggling with an unhealthy relationship with alcohol.

In 2003, Fadela Amara founded Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS), a French feminist social movement that arose in the banlieues, or impoverished suburbs of Paris. Growing up in the banlieues as a child of Algerian immigrants, Amara became a fierce advocate for the underclass and was later appointed to a post in the French government headed by Nicolas Sarkozy. Led by Amara and devoted to equal rights and opportunities for everyone, NPNS is especially focused on improving conditions for Muslim immigrant women who often suffer from discrimination, violence, and repression. Providing ample context and explanation of the NPNS movement for the first time for English-language readers, editors and translators Brittany Murray and Diane Perpich include unpublished materials from the movement's formative days when women spoke out about the difficulties and violence faced daily in France's ghettos. A discussion with the movement's founder provides additional information about immigration, discrimination, feminism, the headscarf affair, and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Taking French Feminism to the Streets provides a penetrating analysis of the social, political, and economic conditions in France. [Portions of this work were originally published as La racaille de la Republique by Fadela Amara and Mohammed Abdi, Editions du Seuil, 2006]

An Account of one Woman's Courage, Caring, and Generosity in the Face of the Inhumane. Brigitte Bardot--a global icon of French cinema--has used her fame to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Leaving the spotlight of stardom, she has dedicated her time and fortune to promoting the welfare of animals, both domestic and wild, around the world. Over the past forty years, Bardot has evolved from an international film icon of the glamorous sixties to an icon of that of a crusader for animal rights, forming her own foundation and meeting with leaders from around the world and lobbying for legislation to protect animals. In this poignant memoir, she uncovers the struggles of her decades-long battle--detailing the too few victories and the heartbreaking defeats--and revealing herself as never before seen through her reflections about nature, herself as a superstar, and the passion that has driven her away from glamour of her previous fame toward the humble calling of serving others.

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart   Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"--one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left‑right split, leaving many on "the periphery."   As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country's new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy's analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an "open society" in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

With the rise of politician and presidential hopeful Sandrine Rousseau, and environmentalist and politician Yannick Jadot there has been a huge rise in popularity of the Green party as the urgency of environmental issues reache new heights. Écoféministes, néo-utopistes, antispécistes, décrossants, collapsologues, survivalistes...plongée au coeur de l'écologie radicale.

In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of France's relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves.Drawing on sociological, polemical and literary writings, this thoughtful and wide-ranging study examines the unacknowledged colonial roots of French feminist discourses on Islam and femininity, before bringing to light examples of French Muslim women's writing and activism that suggest alternative ways of being both French and a feminist.Shortlisted for the 2012 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best book of its year by a scholar working in French studies in Britain or Ireland.

A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers--especially Simone de Beauvoir--to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experience. What role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be independent, outspoken, and career-minded. Yet, this same media glorifies a specific, sometimes voluntary, female submissiveness as a source of satisfaction. In philosophy, even less has been said on why women submit to men and the discussion has been equally contradictory--submission has traditionally been considered a vice or pathology, but female submission has been valorized as innate to women's nature. Is there a way to explore female submission in all of its complexity--not denying its appeal in certain instances, and not buying into an antifeminist, sexist, or misogynistic perspective? We Are Not Born Submissive offers the first in-depth philosophical exploration of female submission, focusing on the thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, and more recent work in feminist philosophy, epistemology, and political theory. Manon Garcia argues that to comprehend female submission, we must invert how we examine power and see it from the woman's point of view. Historically, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and even some radical feminists have conflated femininity and submission. Garcia demonstrates that only through the lens of women's lived experiences--their economic, social, and political situations--and how women adapt their preferences to maintain their own well-being, can we understand the ways in which gender hierarchies in society shape women's experiences. Ultimately, she asserts that women do not actively choose submission. Rather, they consent to--and sometimes take pleasure in--what is prescribed to them through social norms within a patriarchy. Moving beyond the simplistic binary of natural destiny or moral vice, We Are Not Born Submissive takes a sophisticated look at how female submissiveness can be explained. [On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient]