As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States focuses on the transformations of the US LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have paradoxically led to a decrease in grassroots militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors' mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy.

Pourquoi penser le biographique ? N'est-il pas epuise ? Le siecle passe semble l'avoir vide de son contenu et de sa substance et l'a reduit a un etat d'affaiblissement presque complet dans le domaine des sciences sociales comme dans celui de la critique litteraire. L'enjeu de cet ouvrage est d'affirmer que le biographique deborde la biographie et de considerer le biographique comme une condition du retour de la biographie au moyen de son depassement. Cet ouvrage rassemble des travaux abordant des questions historiques et litteraires dans une multiplicite d'aires geographiques (pays de langue allemande, anglaise, espagnole et italienne): penser la specificite du biographique suppose de prendre en compte plusieurs disciplines et aires culturelles, diversite necessaire, car le biographique se trouve au croisement des sciences sociales et de la litterature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction. Ce livre propose un etat de la reflexion sur le sujet.