The author of The Mental Load returns with more "visual essays which are transformative agents of change." After the success of The Mental Load, Emma continues in her new book to tangle with issues pertinent to women's experiences, from consent to the "power of love," from the care and attentiveness that women place on others' wellbeing and social cohesion, and how it constitutes another burden on women, to contraception, to the true nature of gallantry, from the culture of rape to diets, from safety in public spaces to retirement, along with social issues such as police violence, women's rights, and green capitalism. And, once more, she hits the mark.

Les violences sexuelles envers les femmes n'apparaissent pas spontanément. Elles ne font pas partie de la "nature humaine" ni ne sont le résultat d'incontrôlables pulsions masculines. Elles ont des causes sociales - impunité des agresseurs, idées reçues sur la sexualité, inégalités structurelles - qui forment ce que l'on appelle une "culture du viol". Cela va de remarques apparemment anodines qui culpabilisent les victimes à un traitement trop fréquent des viols comme des délits plutôt que comme des crimes devant les tribunaux ; de formules pour excuser les agresseurs à une remise en cause systématique de la parole des femmes qui dénoncent des agressions. En France, chaque année, entre 60 000 et 100 000 femmes sont victimes de viol ou de tentative de viol. Environ 16% des Françaises auraient subi une telle agression au cours de leur vie. Et les viols ne représentent que la partie émergée d'un iceberg : celui des violences sexuelles, à la maison, au travail ou dans la rue. Or ces violences ont des conséquences graves : elles minent la confiance et limitent la liberté par la peur qu'elles instaurent. Elles constituent une atteinte aux droits et à la dignité des personnes et consolident la domination masculine. Mais cette situation n'est pas une fatalité. C'est pourquoi il est important d'identifier les éléments culturels qui servent de justification et de terreau à ces actes, afin de proposer des pistes qui permettront d'y mettre fin.

The aftermath of Algeria’s revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.​ Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970s—highly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard’s analysis of both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.

This is a comprehensive history of political violence during Europe's incredibly violent twentieth century. Leading scholars examine the causes and dynamics of war, revolution, counterrevolution, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism and state repression. They locate these manifestations of political violence within their full transnational and comparative contexts and within broader trends in European history from the beginning of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth-century, through the two world wars, to the Yugoslav Wars and the rise of fundamentalist terrorism. The book spans a 'greater Europe' stretching from Ireland and Iberia to the Baltic, the Caucasus, Turkey and the southern shores of the Mediterranean. It sheds new light on the extent to which political violence in twentieth-century Europe was inseparable from the generation of new forms of state power and their projection into other societies, be they distant territories of imperial conquest or ones much closer to home.

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France. Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another—not just in romantic relationships but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. While sexual repartee and conquest remain at the heart of seduction, for the French seduction has become a philosophy of life, even an ideology, that can confuse outsiders. In La Seduction, Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland. La Seduction will charm you and encourage you to lower your defenses about the French. Pull up a chair and let Elaine Sciolino seduce you.