Books by Sandrine Sanos
Oxford University Press, 2016
Papers by Sandrine Sanos
Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 2014
with Anupama Arora (University of Massachussetts - Dartmouth)
Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 2016
With Anupama Arora (University of Massachussetts - Dartmouth) & Laura K. Muñoz (University of Neb... more With Anupama Arora (University of Massachussetts - Dartmouth) & Laura K. Muñoz (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
French Historical Studies, 2018
Jewish History, 2018
This essay argues that we cannot fully grasp what has been at stake in discussions following the ... more This essay argues that we cannot fully grasp what has been at stake in discussions following the January 2015 attacks in Paris, nor the symbolic place Charlie Hebdo has subsequently come to hold in French society, unless we pay attention to the ways in which gender, sex, and race have shaped both Charlie Hebdo's visual register and contemporary representations of Frenchness and difference. Within the French context, difference has historically been assigned to bodies that are imagined to disrupt the proper gendered and sexual ordering of the nation, focusing recently on "Arab" and "Muslim" gendered bodies, just as Jewish bodies had been caricatured earlier in the twentieth century. This essay therefore argues that understanding Charlie Hebdo's satire requires examining how the sexualization of race in representations of those deemed different, especially Muslims, has become incredibly banal in contemporary France. The magazine participated in rather than exposed what came to be seen as commonsense beliefs that both Left and Right relied on and that marginalized Muslims from the republican order.
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Jan 1, 2006
Sandrine Sanos' essay is an example of the kind of rereading of history made possible by... more Sandrine Sanos' essay is an example of the kind of rereading of history made possible by “theory,” in this case, psychoanalytic theory. The theory is not applied to the material she investigates in ways that constrain it or deny its specificity; the point is not to demonstrate ...
Modern Intellectual History, Jan 1, 2011
In her epilogue, Tracie Matysik argues that "questions of universalism, difference, and morality ... more In her epilogue, Tracie Matysik argues that "questions of universalism, difference, and morality beyond the law have returned with a new force" (256). Similarly, in hers, Judith Surkis shows how the recent virulent controversies around the headscarf in republican French schools and their attendant legislation have a genealogy in the vibrant fin de siècle debates on pedagogy, secularism, and citizenship (243-8). Few would argue with Surkis and Matysik's contention that contemporary debates on universalism, citizenship, and secularism which haunt Western liberal democracies have a historical past, yet few have explored this past in such an illuminating manner. By reflecting on these issues, both studies illustrate how intellectual history, far from being the abstract and arcane sub-field of history it is still considered by some critics, has contemporary purchase and speaks to a present that must be thought historically. These authors show how (sexual) difference constituted a central term in the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century definition of the nature and social expression of the subject.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Jan 1, 2011
Book Reviews by Sandrine Sanos
Fiction and Film for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin, Nov 2014
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