Two memoirs trenchantly critique the ways in which France has framed sexual consent, legally and culturally, since the 1970s.

Camille Robcis
Camille Robcis is professor of French and history at Columbia University. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell University Press, 2013) and Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). She is currently working on a new project, “The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation.”