Sous la direction de Jesse Battan, Thomas Bouchet et Tania Régin
Dijon, EUD, 2004
ISBN: 2-905965-95-9
La gauche a souvent oscillé entre le singulier et le pluriel depuis 150 ans. Si certains de ses combats sur le terrain économique, par exemple l’ont plutôt aidée à s’identifier, d’autres ont eu l’effet inverse. Meetings & Alcôves montre que les questions de sexualité ont contribué à brouiller ses repères. Les partis, syndicats, journaux, militants européens ou américains ont en général opposé ou disjoint engagement politico-social et expressions du désir sexuel, mais au prix de multiples tensions et contradictions.
The Left has often wavered between the singular and the plural. Some of its struggles in the field of economy for example have if anything reinforced its sense of identity. Yet others have had the opposite effect. Meetings & Alcôves argues that conflicts over sexual issues have been the source of more perplexity. With political parties, trade unions and activists, socio-political involvement and the expression of sexual desire have generally been considered as antagonistic or clearly independent of each other. But this disjunction has caused many tensions and contradictions.