Éric Fassin
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View article: An Epidemic of Transphobia on French Turf
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On September 22, 2022, a one-day international symposium took place in Rio de Janeiro: Epidemia de transfobia. This was actually a counter-event organized in response to another international event, Congresso Brazileiro de Transsexualidade…
View article: Acknowledgments
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ACKNOWL EDGMENTSThis book is the fruit of many journeys.I began to think about writing it at the end of 2010, in the middle of a very vivacious and productive conversation at the conference "States of Feminism/Matters of State: Gender and …
View article: Gender and the Problem of Universals: Catholic Mobilizations and Sexual Democracy in France
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In the 1980s, John Boswell analyzed the controversy between ‘essentialists’ and ‘constructionists’ in gay and lesbian studies in the light of the medieval ‘problem of universals.’ This paper revives this analogy to understand the controver…