May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Rethinking May 68....Pages 3-16
The Moral History of 1968....Pages 17-33
Exploitation, Alienation and the Social Division of Labour in the May–June Movement in France....Pages 34-46
Beyond Tradition: The Strikes of May–June 1968....Pages 47-57
Inventing a Memory on the Extreme Left: The Example of the Maoists after 1968....Pages 58-75
Algerian Reveries on the Far Right: Thinking about Algeria to Change France in 1968....Pages 76-92
Reaching Out to Immigrants in May 68: Specific or Universal Appeals?....Pages 93-108
The Arab Workers’ Movement (1970–1976): Sociology of a New Political Generation....Pages 109-121
‘And What Then about “Our” Problem?’ — Gay Liberation in the Occupied Sorbonne in May 1968....Pages 122-136
The 1970s Moment in Sexual Politics....Pages 137-147
May 68 and the Changes in Private Life: A ‘Sexual Liberation’?....Pages 148-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-162
Decentring the Events....Pages 163-177
The Local, Regional and National in May–June 1968....Pages 178-187
Factory Disputes in the French Provinces in the ‘1968 Years’: Brittany ass a Case Study....Pages 188-201
Peasant Insurgency in the ‘1968 Years’ (1961–1981)....Pages 202-216
‘In Marseilles We Remained Calm’: The Myths and Realities of Marseilles’s May 68....Pages 217-230
The Grand Tour of Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the Europeanism of 1968....Pages 231-244
From Dream to Reality: The Birth of ‘Vincennes’....Pages 245-262
Artists and Architects in May 1968: An Aesthetics of Disappearance....Pages 263-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-280
Performing the Revolution....Pages 281-298
Front Matter....Pages 279-280
L’Entrée Libre à L’Ex-thèâtre de France: The Occupation of the Odéon and the Revolutionary Culture of the French Stage....Pages 299-315
The Politics of Theatre and the Theatre of Politics: From Paris to Avignon via Villeurbanne, May–July 1968....Pages 316-324
Malle e/on mai: Louis Malle’s Takes on May 68....Pages 325-339
Falling on Deaf Ears, Again: Hervé Le Roux’s Reprise (1997)....Pages 340-355
Sex Power: Bernadette Lafont and the Sexual Revolution in French Cinema circa 1968....Pages 356-375
Orgasm without Limits: May 68 and the History of Sex Education in Modern France....Pages 376-397
Epilogue: The Day My Father Fell Silent (Extracts)....Pages 398-417
Back Matter....Pages 418-436