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The paradox that sexual intimacy is neither intimate nor private but instead the subject of intense public deliberation, is rightly associated with the work of Michel Foucault. Standards of normalcy and deviancy, of the permitted and prohibited, can never, Foucault proposes, be the choice of individuals, but are subjected to normalising discourses and discursive practices by a range of modern professionals, even as these experts extol an end to sexual repression.2
A version of this chapter was first presented to a conference on Honour and Shame in Europe, at the University of Western Australia in July 2003. Later versions were presented at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the International Sociological Association Conference on ‘Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging/s’ in August 2004, London, and at a conference on ‘The Constructions of Minority Identities in Britain and France’ in Bristol University in September 2004. I wish to thank all the various participants at these conferences for their incisive comments.
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Werbner, P. (2007). Veiled Interventions in Pure Space: Honour, Shame and Embodied Struggles among Muslims in Britain and France. In: Raymond, G.G., Modood, T. (eds) The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230590960_8
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