Eric Fassin is a sociologist, a "professeur agrégé" at the école
normale supérieure where he has been teaching since 1994 (while
running the doctoral program "Sciences sociales" ENS/EHESS
until 2005). Fassin has spent several years in the United States, in
particular as Assistant Director of the Institute of French Studies at
New York University. His research focuses on sexual politics in
France and in the United States, as well as racial politics, and the
sociology of intellectuals. Eric Fassin recently co-edited a book (with
Didier Fassin), entitled De la question sociale à la question raciale?
Représenter la société française (La Découverte, 2006). He also just
launched a series of volumes on gender and sexuality (at La
Découverte). In 2005 he published: L’inversion de la question homosexuelle (Amsterdam). His book Liberté, égalité, sexualités. Actualité politique des questions sexuelles, written with
Clarisse Fabre, was reissued in paperback in an updated version (10/18, 2004; first edition Belfond/Le Monde, 2003). He is at work on another book: Same Sex, Different Politics: Comparative
Politics of 'Gay Marriage' (Duke University Press, French version with Fayard). He also co-edited
(with Daniel Borrillo and Marcela Iacub) Au-delà du PACS: l’expertise familiale à l’épreuve de
l’homosexualité (PUF, 1999; reissued in 2001).
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