S’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ?

This article questions the popular orientalist belief that eroticizes the figure of the “Arab man” and its influence on the Maghrebin workers mobilizations in the 1970’s. It focuses on the particular case of a hunger strike by undocumented workers from Tunisia that took place in March 1973 in Vaise,...

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Autor principal:	Baptiste Feuillye
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Publicado:	Association Mnémosyne 2021
Materias:	maghrebin workers masculinities hunger strikes political commitment orientalism Women. Feminism HQ1101-2030.7 Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HN1-995
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2dcd4bcd3b984b3a9e2d5054b6ce68f22021-12-02T10:12:22ZS’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ?2102-5886https://doaj.org/article/2dcd4bcd3b984b3a9e2d5054b6ce68f22021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/6188https://doaj.org/toc/2102-5886This article questions the popular orientalist belief that eroticizes the figure of the “Arab man” and its influence on the Maghrebin workers mobilizations in the 1970’s. It focuses on the particular case of a hunger strike by undocumented workers from Tunisia that took place in March 1973 in Vaise, a neighbourhood of Lyon. This social conflict was part of the protest movement against the Marcellin-Fontanet circulars in France, and more generally in an unprecedented period of mobilization of postcolonial immigrant workers in the early 1970s. This paper first addresses by which processes these Maghrebin workers were gendered and assigned to a marginal masculinity within French society. This allows us to see the centrality of gender issues within these conflicts, used as a tool used by hunger strikers to empower themselves as legitimate political subjects. Finally, the article examines the ambivalences of the hunger strike as a mode of action, and how it affects the relationship between activism and masculinities. Throughout this reflection, the role of the space of mobilization in the dynamic transformation of the masculine identities of these workers –and more generally of gender relations – will gradually become apparent.Baptiste FeuillyeAssociation Mnémosynearticlemaghrebin workersmasculinitieshunger strikespolitical commitmentorientalismWomen. FeminismHQ1101-2030.7Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reformHN1-995FRGenre & Histoire, Vol 27 (2021)
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description	This article questions the popular orientalist belief that eroticizes the figure of the “Arab man” and its influence on the Maghrebin workers mobilizations in the 1970’s. It focuses on the particular case of a hunger strike by undocumented workers from Tunisia that took place in March 1973 in Vaise, a neighbourhood of Lyon. This social conflict was part of the protest movement against the Marcellin-Fontanet circulars in France, and more generally in an unprecedented period of mobilization of postcolonial immigrant workers in the early 1970s. This paper first addresses by which processes these Maghrebin workers were gendered and assigned to a marginal masculinity within French society. This allows us to see the centrality of gender issues within these conflicts, used as a tool used by hunger strikers to empower themselves as legitimate political subjects. Finally, the article examines the ambivalences of the hunger strike as a mode of action, and how it affects the relationship between activism and masculinities. Throughout this reflection, the role of the space of mobilization in the dynamic transformation of the masculine identities of these workers –and more generally of gender relations – will gradually become apparent.
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title	S’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ?
title_short	S’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ?
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S’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ?

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