5/1/1968 Rethinking France's Last Revolution [Hardcover]

The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society  theatre, film, sexuality, race, the countryside, the factories. This volume explores the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval, and shows how 1968 continues to reverberate in France today.Illustrations Preface Contributors Acronyms PART I: RETHINKING THE EVENTS Rethinking May 68; J.Jackson The Moral History of 1968; J.Bourg Exploitation, Alienation and the Social Division of Labour in the May-June Movement in France; B.Gobille Beyond Tradition: the Strikes of May-June 1968; X.Vigna Inventing a Memory on the Extreme Left: the Example of the Maoists after 1968; P.Buton Algerian Reveries on the Far Right: Thinking About Algeria to Change France in 1968; T.Shepard Reaching out to Immigrants in May 68: specific or universal appeals?; D.Gordon The Arab Workers' Movement (1970-1976): Sociology of a New Political Generation; A.Hajjat 'And what then about 'our' problem?'  Gay Liberation in the Occupied Sorbonne in May 1968; M.Sibalis The 1970s Moment in Sexual Politics; M.Prearo May 68 and the Changes in Private Life: a 'sexual liberation'?; A-C.Rebreyend PART II: DECENTRING THE EVENTS Decentring the Events; A-L.Milne The Local, Regional and National in May-June 1968; M.Zancarini-Fournel Factory Disputes in the French Provinces in the '1968 Years': Brittany as a Case-Study; V.Porhel Peasant Insurgency in the '1968 Years' (1961-1981); J-P.Martin 'In Marseilles we remained calm': The Myths and Realities of Marseilles's May 68; A-L.Ollivier The Grand Tour of Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the Europeanism of 1968; R. I.Jobs From Dream to Reality: the Birth of 'Vincennes'; C.Dormoy-Rajramanan Artists and Architects in May 1968: An Aesthetics of Disappearance; J-L.Violeau PART III: PERFORMING THE EVENTS Performing the Revolution; J.S.Williams L'Entr?e libre ? l'ex-th??tre de France: the Occupation of the Od?on and the Revolutionary Culture of the French Stage; K.Bredl³°