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Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture

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Abstract

Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa--as well as their French descendants--have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness rejected not because of any linguistic or civic barrier, but rather due to their perceived inadequacy at the level of sexual liberation.

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Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture

Mack, Mehammed Amadeus

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Enter the Sexagon -- 1. The Banlieue Has a Gender: Competing Visions of Sexual Diversity -- 2. Constructing the Broken Family: Th e Draw for Psychoanalysis -- 3. Uncultured Yet Seductive: Th e Trope of the Difficult Arab Boy -- 4. Sexual Undergrounds: Cinema, Performance, and Ethnic Surveillance -- 5. Erotic Solutions for Ethnic Tension: Fantasy, Reality, Pornography -- Conclusion: The Sexagon's Border Crisis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index