Sexagon entices readers to consider the ways in which stale Orientalist themes continue to permeate French culture in the form of sexual enlightenment, thus providing a grounding for modern xenophobia.
Review of Middle East Studies
Sexagon is a key intellectual exercise in how to understand Islam, Muslims, and its place within the French imagination as well as the ... Read moregrowing ethnic coalition that is the French people.
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Sexagon vividly portrays the context in which many French LGBT immigrants live now, under pressure for self-disclosure.
The Gay & Lesbian Review
In France today, sex is a matter of national identity: it provides a language to speak about those whose Frenchness is deemed problematic. Indeed, the gender and sexuality of these racialized 'Others'are the object of a proliferation of discourses. Mehammed Mack's original, rich, and precise contribution to a growing field of studies focuses on the multiplicity of cultural representations that both reflect and produce postcolonial France as a kaleidoscope of sexual obsessions - a 'sexagon.'
-Eric Fassin
Paris-8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis
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