Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION. Sex Talk and the Post- Algerian History of France 1
4. ONE. The Far Right and the Reinvigoration of Sexual Orientalism in Post- Decolonization France 19
5. TWO. May ’68, “Arab Perversion,” and Anti- Arab Racism 42
6. THREE. The Algerian Revolution and Arab Men in the Fight for Sexual Revolution 63
7. FOUR. Homosociality, “Human Contact,” and the Specter of the Arab Man in the Post-’68 French Gay World 96
8. FIVE. Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1945– 1975: Algerian Pimps and the “Takeover” of the “Whores of France” 132
9. SIX. Prostitution and the Arab Man, 1962–1979: Prostitutes, Arab Clients, and “The Traffi c in White Women” 161
10. SEVEN. Power, Resistance, and Sodomy in Post- Algerian France 196
11. EIGHT. Rape as Metaphor in the 1970s 226
12. NINE. Rape as Act in the 1970s 250
13. CONCLUSION. The Erotics of Algerian Difference, 1979/2016 272
14. Bibliography 287
15. Index 309