Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France

Lucille Gairns (ed.)
Gay and Lesbian
Cultures in France
PETER LANG
Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt a.M. • New York • Wien
Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Notes on Contributors
xi
LUCILLE CAIRNS
Introduction
1
Part 1: Theoretical Overviews
DAVID M. HALPERIN
Gay identity after Foucault
17
CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON
Identity and the pragmatics of reading
25
Part 2: French Lesbians and Gays:
Social Subjects, Social Bodies
MICHAEL SIBALIS
'La Lesbian and Gay Pride' in Paris:
community, commerce and carnival
51
STEVE WHARTON
Pedes, PACS et pognon:
establishing a community of French gay citizens?
67
ALASTAIR DUNCAN
Gay men in the French AIDS-prevention campaigns,
1987-1998: a place in the Republic?
79
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PIERRE-OLIVIER DE BUSSCHER
Transformations du champ de l'homosexualite en
France, 1989-1998
ROMMEL MENDES-LEITE AND BRUNO PROTH
Les volontaires de la lutte contre le sida: statut
serologique et paradoxes de 1'engagement (Le cas du
groupe de prevention gay de l'assoiation AIDES -Paris)
99
111
Part 3: French Lesbians and Gays:
Subjects/Objects of Cultural Production
HELENE DE MONFERRAND
Une fin heureuse
137
MARGARET-ANNE HUTTON
No gun, but still pleased to see you:
Anne Rambach's Tokyo 'polar' trilogy
141
LUCILLE CAIRNS
Identity or difference? The ontology of lesbianism in
contemporary french realist fiction
157
MARIE-HELENE BOURCIER
Material girls en guerre contre Madonna et 'le queer':
le 'woman-identified' lesbianisme radical en France
de 2002 a 1980
173
GARETH LYNN
Looking for the Other: gay men and AIDS films
205
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OWEN HEATHCOTE
S(h)aming the Other: repetition, abjection and the
culture of redemption in Vincent Borel's Un ruban noir,
Guillaume Dustan's Dans ma chambre and Eric Jourdan's
Sexuellement incorrect
219
IAN H. MAGEDERA
Jean Genet and the ontological perversion of sexual desire
233
DOUGLAS MORREY
Tricks and risks: Herve Guibert's L 'Incognito,
or the dynamics of contagion
247
MURRAY PRATT
The diary of Neaud's body:
approaching the subject of heterocentricity
257
Bibliography
275
Index
287