Sex, Sovereignty, and Transnational Intimacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5730895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith Surkis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1089-1096 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/ahr.115.4.1089 |
| OpenAlex | W2157651627 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
issue, this journal featured an AHR Forum on how histories of sexuality can and do contribute to the writing of transnational history. 1 Does the current forum's focus on postwar France indicate a reversion to an exclusively national frame?Not exactly.By attending to recent transnational and international concerns, this collection of essays recasts "French" history, illustrating that a national story cannot be isolated from broader contexts, which both traverse and shape its borders.This grouping of articles offers a good opportunity to revisit-and test-the earlier forum's conclusions about the extent, potential, and limitations of transnational thinking about sex and "intimacy."Histories of sexuality coincide with transnational approaches in several respects.After all, as Margot Canaday and Joanne Meyerowitz signaled in their essays in the 2009 forum, both historiographies focus on contacts, exchanges, and flows that transgress borders and construct new relations. 2Dagmar Herzog, in her contribution "Syncopated Sex," nonetheless provided a contrapuntal note, as she asserted the distinct-if parallel-national paths followed by different European countries in the twentieth century."The nation-state," she wrote, "is a logical unit to analyze when we are trying to understand changes in laws and government policies; and for most of the twentieth century, it is striking how profound an impact laws have had in shaping national and local sexual cultures and individuals' self-conceptions alike, as well as . . . the actual bodily experiences of sex." 3 Herzog, in other words, reminded us of the persistence of the nation in the transnational.The essays in the current forum at once confirm and complicate Herzog's assertions about the nation-state's ongoing salience in postwar Europe.More specifically, they highlight how inter-and transnational influences-and power playswere constitutive of rather than ancillary to those "national" histories.As these authors suggest, the national sexual history of postwar France cannot be told without reference to German occupation, American "liberation," and imperial reorganiza
Criminology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Sex work and related issues
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2017 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |