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The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968 1st Edition
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This book examines the development of France’s male and female homosexual communities and its gay liberation movements after 1968. The book focuses on the construction of social institutions, treating gay activist organizations and their relation to post-1968 French feminism, gay ghettos in French cities, the gay press, the impact of AIDS on political identity, and the renewed militancy of the 1990s. While acknowledging the influence of America’s gay liberation movement on the French situation, the author emphasizes the differences arising from the fact that homosexuality has not historically been criminalized in France as it has been in the United States.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I, “The Revolution of Desire (1968-79),” which examines the activism of the early post-1968 gay liberation movement, is preceded by a historical summary that traces French cultural, political, and social attitudes toward homosexuality. It also explores the relations between the movements for gay and women’s liberation in their various incarnations. Part II, “The Time of Socialization (1979-84)” describes the development of gay ghettos and the dissemination of gay institutions (media, countercultural venues, bars, baths, and the like). The pivotal year is 1981, which saw the advent of François Mitterrand’s government, with its pro-gay policies, as well as the first tracking of AIDS in the United States.
Part III, “End of the Carefree Life (1981-89),” deals with initial reactions in France to the AIDS epidemic, reactions that included the realization of its ubiquity, first with the death of Michel Foucault in 1984, and then with the media spectacle of Rock Hudson’s death in 1985. The author describes the French government’s response to the epidemic, the role of French medical researchers in searching for the causes of the infection, and the development of Aides (meaning helpers), a social, medical, and political-action group dedicated to raising public and personal awareness of AIDS. Part IV, “The Time of Contradictions (1989-96),” focuses on the changing social institutions of homosexuality in the 1990s: the development of ACT-UP, based on the American model, in France; the campaign to promote safer sex; the integration of seropositive individuals into the homosexual community; and the acceptance of homosexuality almost as a given. The book concludes with a thoughtful epilogue on the integration of minority communities into French society.
- ISBN-100804732736
- ISBN-13978-0804732734
- Edition1st
- PublisherStanford University Press
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2000
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.13 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches
- Print length464 pages
Editorial Reviews
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-Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., OR
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"English-speaking audiences have a number of reasons for reading The Pink and the Black, not the least of which are its detailed chronology of events and its extensive bibliography. By remaining faithful to its original French edition, the English translation provides a fascinating, unabridged peek into the French debates over how to construct a new brand of homosexuality, an identity Made in France. The Pink and the Black is an important addition to cross-cultural studies of homosexuality."―Journal of Homosexuality
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The book is divided into four parts. Part I, “The Revolution of Desire (1968-79),” which examines the activism of the early post-1968 gay liberation movement, is preceded by a historical summary that traces French cultural, political, and social attitudes toward homosexuality. It also explores the relations between the movements for gay and women’s liberation in their various incarnations. Part II, “The Time of Socialization (1979-84)” describes the development of gay ghettos and the dissemination of gay institutions (media, countercultural venues, bars, baths, and the like). The pivotal year is 1981, which saw the advent of François Mitterrand’s government, with its pro-gay policies, as well as the first tracking of AIDS in the United States.
Part III, “End of the Carefree Life (1981-89),” deals with initial reactions in France to the AIDS epidemic, reactions that included the realization of its ubiquity, first with the death of Michel Foucault in 1984, and then with the media spectacle of Rock Hudson’s death in 1985. The author describes the French government’s response to the epidemic, the role of French medical researchers in searching for the causes of the infection, and the development of Aides (meaning helpers), a social, medical, and political-action group dedicated to raising public and personal awareness of AIDS. Part IV, “The Time of Contradictions (1989-96),” focuses on the changing social institutions of homosexuality in the 1990s: the development of ACT-UP, based on the American model, in France; the campaign to promote safer sex; the integration of seropositive individuals into the homosexual community; and the acceptance of homosexuality almost as a given. The book concludes with a thoughtful epilogue on the integration of minority communities into French society.
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“English-speaking audiences have a number of reasons for reading The Pink and the Black, not the least of which are its detailed chronology of events and its extensive bibliography. By remaining faithful to its original French edition, the English translation provides a fascinating, unabridged peek into the French debates over how to construct a new brand of homosexuality, an identity Made in France. The Pink and the Black is an important addition to cross-cultural studies of homosexuality.”—Journal of Homosexuality
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- Publisher : Stanford University Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2000)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0804732736
- ISBN-13 : 978-0804732734
- Item Weight : 1.96 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.13 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,258,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #632 in Gay & Lesbian Studies
- #9,266 in LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies
- #10,940 in European History (Books)
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Frederic Martel is a French writer and journalist. Born on October 28th, 1967, in Chateaurenard (near Avignon), his most famous pieces of work are "The Pink and the Black, Homosexuals in France since 1968" (trans. into english at Stanford University Press) and "De la culture en Amerique", a book about cultural policies and industries in the United States which was featured on the cover of the New York Times art section in 2006. NYT's journalist Alan Riding wrote : "In Culture in America, a 622-page tome weighty with information, Martel challenges the conventional view in France that (French) culture financed and organized by the government is entirely good and that (American) culture shaped by market forces is necessarily bad".
Frederic Martel holds a PhD in sociology and several graduate degrees in philosophy, political science and law. After being project manager for the French Embassy in Romania (1990-1992) and the French ministry of culture (1992); and being the cultural policy advisor to the former Prime Minister Michel Rocard (1993-1994), he served the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, deputy-Prime minister Martine Aubry, as one of her senior advisors (1997-2000). From 2001 to 2005 he was cultural attache for the French embassy in the US. He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University and New York University (2004-2006). He wrote, or currently writes, for numerous publications (including Magazine Litteraire, L'Express, Dissent, The Nation, and Haaretz) and produces its own radio show, Masse Critique, a talk show on the entertainment and the medias for the French public radio station France Culture. He is also editor in chief of the Internet based cultural magazine nonfiction.fr. In addition to that, he maintains high-level academic activities by giving conferences in major American universities (such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley and the MIT) and by teaching at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (also known as Sciences Po Paris) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris (also known as HEC Paris).
Since 2008 he is a researcher for the French Foreign Affairs' Analysis and Forecasting Centre and project manager for the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel on a research project concerning creative industries and medias around the world.
Books and TV documentaries
Frederic Martel is the author of five books:
* Philosophie du droit et philosophie politique d'Adolphe Thiers, LGDJ, 1995 (His thesis in public law published as a book at LGDJ Press)
* The Pink and the Black, Homosexuals in France since 1968, Le Seuil, 1996 ; trans. into english in the US by Jane Marie Todd at Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0804732744
* La longue marche des gays, Gallimard, 2002.
* Theater, Sur le declin du theatre en Amerique et comment il peut resister en France, La Decouverte, 2006.
* De la culture en Amerique (Culture in America), Gallimard, 2006 (2007 France-Ameriques prize; translated in Japanese and in Polish)
Yves Jeuland's movie, "Bleu, Blanc, Rose" was based on Frederic Martel's "The Pink and the Black" (broad. on France 3, National Public Television) and Frederic Martel has also codirected the documentary "De la culture en Amerique" with Frederic Laffont (broad. on Arte, French-German TV network).
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