Author Archives: Camille Robcis

About Camille Robcis

Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell, 2013) and of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (Chicago, 2021). Her new book, The War on Gender, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Gender Ideology, the Figure of the Child, and the Fear of Cultural Reproduction

This article examines the role that the figure of the child has played in anti-gender arguments. Specifically, it focuses on the emergence of anti-gender protests and rhetoric in France around the 2013 gay marriage law, the mariage pour tous. I argue that “gender ideology” came to feature in French right-wing discourse during these gay marriage debates because of children. The bill mentioned neither gender nor children and yet most of the controversy centered on these two topics. My second argument is that the struggle around “gender ideology” in Continue reading → Continue reading →