Introductory, general and theoretical reading 

de Beauvoir, Simone, Le Deuxième Sexe (Paris: Gallimard, 1949).

Best, Victoria & Crowley, Martin, The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).

Cervulle, Maxime and Rees-Roberts, Nick, Homo Exoticus: race, classe et critique queer (Paris: Armand Colin, 2010).

Dean, Tim, Ruszczycky and Squires, David, Porn Archives (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). Available via the Library as e-book here.

Dworkin, Andrea, Pornography: Men Possessing Women (London: Women’s Press, 1981).

Fabre, Clarisse & Fassin, Éric, Liberté, Egalité, Sexualités: Actualité politique des questions sexuelles (Paris: Belfond, 2003). 

Foucault, Michel, Histoire de la sexualité I, La volonté de savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1976).

Gunther, Scott, ​The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France 1942-present​ (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Text available electronically via the library catalogue.

Robinson, Christopher, Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-century French Literature (London: Cassell, 1995).

Warner, Michael (ed.), Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory ​(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

Lindon

Butler, Judith, ‘Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?’, in Undoing Gender (London: Routledge, 2004), pp.102-130.

Downing, Lisa, The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Text available electronically via the library catalogue.

Eribon, Didier, Michel Foucault (Paris: Flammarion, 3rd ed. 2011), in particular pp. 509-14.

Foucault, Michel, ‘Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity’ [a 1982 interview by Bob Gallagher and Alexander Wilson, conducted in Toronto and first published in The Advocate on 7 August 1984], reprinted in French in Foucault, Dits et écrits, vol. 4, pp.735-46; also available in the original English in Lotringer (ed.), Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984 (New York: Semiotext(e), 1989), pp. 382-390.

Halperin, David, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 130-162.

Huffer, Lynne, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), in particular chs. 1 & 5.

Race, Kane, Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2009), ch. 6 (‘Embodiments of Safety’), pp. 137-63. See also ch. 7 (‘Exceptional Sex: How Drugs Have Come to Mediate Sex in Gay Discourse’), pp.164-89.

Despentes

Best, Victoria & Crowley, Martin, The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), in particular pp. 163-79.

Bourcier, Marie-Hélène, 'Baise-moi, encore', Queer Zones: Politiques des identités sexuelles et des savoirs (Paris: Amsterdam, 3rd ed. 2011), pp. 13-32.

Fayard, Nicole, ‘The Rebellious Body as Parody: Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes’, French Studies LX:1 (Jan 2006): 63-77.

Huffer, Lynne, 'After Sex', in Are The Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), pp. 161-76.

Jordan, Shirley, ‘“Dans le mauvais goût pour le mauvais goût”? Pornographie, violence et sexualité féminine dans la fiction de Virginie Despentes’, in Nathalie Morello & Catherine Rodgers (eds.), Nouvelles écrivaines: Nouvelles voix? (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), 121-39.

Long, Julia, Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism (London: Zed Books, 2012), in particular ch. 3, 'Pornification and Its Discontents', pp. 111-146.

O'Toole, Laurence, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire (London: Serpent's Tale, 1998), in particular ch. 1, 'Definitions', pp. 1-25.

Sauzon, Virginie, 'Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation', Genre Sexualité et Société 7 (2012). Click here.

Segal, Lynne, ‘Only the Literal: The Contradictions of Anti-Pornography Feminism’, Sexualities 1, 1 (1998): 43-62.

Williams, Linda (ed.), Porn Studies (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).

Dustan

Best, Victoria & Crowley, Martin, The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), ch. 3.

Davis, Oliver, 'Guillaume Dustan's "autopornobiographie": Is there room for trash in the queer subcultural archive?', in Alienation and Alterity: Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Francophone contexts, ed. by Helen Vassallo & Paul Cooke (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 59-76.

Hendrickson, Daniel & Siegel, Marc, 'The Ghetto Novels of Guillaume Dustan', Paroles gelées 16, 1: 97-119. Click here.

Kollias, Hector, ‘Guillaume Dustan, Master of the Drive’, Journal of Romance Studies 8:2 (2008), 113-130. Click here.

Noguez, Dominique, ‘Rayon littérature universelle’, écritures 14 (2004), 93-97. Click here.

Phillips, Adam & Bersani, Leo, Intimacies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), chs. 2 & 4.

Pagano

Espineira, Karine et al., La Transcyclopédie: tout savoir sur les transidentités (Paris: Editions Des Ailes sur un Tracteur, 2012), in particular 'A - Associations', pp. 48-72.

Prosser, Jay, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), in particular ch. 2, 'A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual Embodiment', pp. 61-96.

Reeser, Todd , 'TransFrance', L'Esprit créateur 53, 1 (2013), 4-14. [Available electronically through the Library here]

Sauzon, Virginie, 'Un transgenre grammatical ? : la tension linguistique dans Les Adolescents troglodytes d'Emmanuelle Pagano', L'Esprit créateur 53, 1 (2013), 74-86. [Available electronically through the Library here]

Stryker, Susan and Whittle, Stephen (eds.), The Transgender Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 2006), in particular Stryker, '(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies', pp. 1-17.