Meetings & Alcôves. Gauches et sexualités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis depuis 1850, The Left and Sexuality in Europe and the United States since 1850

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 les 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 independant of each other. But this disjunction has caused many tensions and contradictions.