Books & ideas

Love as a rebellious discourse

Christophe Giraud — 2025-11-27T07:30:00Z

Based on a collective survey, Christine Détrez intends to deconstruct the term ‘crush' and explores the social meanings underlying the many ways young people aged between 12 and 25 form relationships and learn about love.

The Norms of Love

Christophe Giraud — 2025-10-23T09:44:04Z

What social meaning can be given to the romantic relationships of adolescents? A comparative study examines perceptions of love and conjugality among young people from different backgrounds, paying particular attention to the question of gender in adolescence.

Divine Sensations

Kevin Bouillot — 2024-10-29T08:02:31Z

In ancient Greece, religious rites were designed to produce a unique state of receptivity. This book, which focuses on the tools used in sensory encounters with the gods, contributes to the sensory turn that is currently revitalizing historical studies.

Gender and Priests

Anthony Favier — 2023-06-08T07:00:00Z

Once a closet for homosexuals, now embroiled in pedophilia scandals, the Catholic Church is trying to restore a veneer of masculinity to its religious figures, thus sacrificing itself to gender politics.

Sexual Freedom under Nazism

Élisa Goudin — 2023-05-23T08:24:54Z

The Nazi regime encouraged Germans to indulge in playful heterosexual activity. Many “Aryan” women were given an opportunity to develop professionally and emotionally. Was there a contradiction between promoting people's sexual freedom while depriving them of political freedom?

The Multiplicity of Gender

Emmanuel Beaubatie — 2021-10-13T07:30:00Z

The multiplicity of possible gender positions cannot be reduced to a spectrum opposing male and female. Numerous conceptions of gender confront one another in a multi-dimensional space, each of them proposing a different alternative to male and heterosexual norms.

Organs and Orgasms

Cécile Thomé — 2020-12-21T08:00:00Z

From personal accounts to anthropological analyses, from emancipatory discourses to debates on mutilation: having long been ignored, female pleasure is now being put into the spotlight.

The Bikini Strategy

Jennifer Bidet — 2018-03-29T07:00:00Z

Last summer, bikini-wearing women on Algerian beaches were a hot topic in the French news. Presented for a while as a feminist revolt against the rise of Islam, this issue is above all symptomatic of the gender relations, but also the class and race relations, structuring Algerian society.

Denouncing Denigration

Abigail Saguy — 2018-02-27T08:00:00Z

Recent press articles revealing numerous cases of sexual harassment and assault in the United States have encouraged women to step forward, especially on Twitter with the use of #metoo. Comparing existing legislation in France and in the United States, Abigail Saguy examines two different approaches designed to tackle this issue.

Gender in Theory and in Practice

Camille Robcis — 2017-09-18T07:00:00Z

The Encyclopédie critique du genre edited by Juliette Rennes offers so much more than a general overview of studies about gender : it examines how gender has reinvented the study of traditional social sciences and raised new issues. Going far beyond the controversies, the notion of gender reveals the extent of its critical force.