My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community

by David Caron

Book Overview

It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and sometimes harass Arabs. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150170561X
• ISBN13: 9781501705618
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher