Le lundi 14 juin à 18h, retrouvez Sasha Issenberg qui présentera en anglais son dernier livre The Engagement sur l’histoire du mariage homosexuel aux États-Unis.
En ligne avec la Fondation des États-Unis (inscription préalable requise) et Michael Stombolis, Professeur de sociologie à l’Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, et Dominique Boren, ex-président de l’APGL (Association des parents et futurs parents gays et lesbiens). L’événement sera en anglais, plus d’informations dans la version anglaise de la page.
Informations Pratiques
Date: 14 juin Horaire : 18h | Evénement Facebook
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A propos des intervenants
Sasha Issenberg est l’auteur de trois livres, The Victory Lab : The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns (2012). Il a couvert les élections de 2008 en tant que journaliste politique national au bureau de Washington du Boston Globe, l’élection de 2012 pour Slate, l’élection de 2016 pour Bloomberg Politics et Businessweek, et 2020 pour The Recount. Il est le correspondant à Washington de Monocle et a également écrit pour New York magazine, The New York Times et le New York Times et George, en tant que rédacteur en chef. Il enseigne au département des sciences politiques de l’UCLA.
Michael Stambolis est sociologue à l’Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. Il étudie la manière dont les gens interagissent par le biais d’institutions politiques, juridiques et scientifiques pour créer des changements sociaux et du sens. Il est l’auteur de nombreux articles sur les questions LGBT et a rédigé des chapitres dans L’accès aux techniques de procréation assistée : le cas de la France et de la Belgique.
(2017, ed. Jennifer Merchant), et Procréation, Médecine et Don (2016, ed. Pierre Jouannet), entre autres. Son projet actuel analyse les “experts” dans les débats sur le changement climatique et les familles LGBT aux États-Unis et en France.
Dominique Boren est un militant homosexuel et l’ancien président de l’APGL, l’une des plus grandes associations de gays et de lesbiennes en France et un acteur clé de la lutte pour l’égalité des droits des familles LGBT en France.
Réseaux sociaux
Page Facebook de Sasha Issemberg
Twitter @Engagement_Book
Instagram @Engagement_Book
Achat du livre
Les liens des librairies en ligne les plus importantes sont disponibles sur www.sashaissenberg.com
Critiques de The Engagement
In this deeply engaging and comprehensively reported work, Sasha Issenberg traces the story of marriage equality from its beginnings as a nearly impossible dream to its current status as an essential right. This engrossing account of social change, political will and human rights arrives at a moment of great urgency. Issenberg’s narrative will inform the efforts of anyone who strives for a more equal country, and touch the heart of anyone who has seen their rights come up for debate.
—Pete Buttigieg, author of Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future
Sasha Issenberg has produced a sweeping, inside history of the first great civil rights triumph of the new century, masterfully weaving together the stories of the pioneering activists and the political and legal strategies they devised into a book of penetrating reportage and analysis that reads like a thriller.
—Joshua Green, author of Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Nationalist Uprising
The Engagement is a sprawlingly rich history of the United States’ most transformative equality movement. Issenberg’s impressively wide-ranging interviews allow him to go beyond the familiar story of trailblazing lawyers to give lesser-known campaign consultants due credit for their critical contributions to bringing about a sea-change in America's acceptance of gay
equality. Likewise, Issenberg’s fair-minded treatment of equality opponents further demonstrates The Engagement will be an enduringly significant work of history.
—David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama and author of Liberty & Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade
At once political history, movement autopsy, legal chronicle, and fly-on-the-wall account, Sasha Issenberg’s latest is one of his most thought-provoking books to date. By reckoning with the stories of those who hoped finally to legalize same-sex marriage, as well as those who were determined to delay, or actively to prevent, such a revolution, Issenberg animates one of this nation’s most recent and dramatic civil rights fights as few others have. And, in doing so, he makes clear not only that its origins were most complex, but also why its legacy remains most uncertain.
—Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan history professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy
It conveys social history as the grand drama it really is, full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.
—The New York Times, Summer Reading Guide
What unfolds over the course of these 928 pages is part Grisham-esque legal thriller, part Sorkin-esque political drama, and part Maddow-esque historical yarn as journalist and editor Issenberg reveals the myriad characters, court cases, and campaigns that led not only to widespread acceptance of same-sex unions but to the ratification of those unions by the highest court in the land.”
—Oprah Magazine, Best LGBTQ Books of 2021
An important story of a great civil rights battle told in exhaustive detail… Issenberg’s research makes the book a vital source.
— Kirkus Reviews
Issenberg lucidly delineates this multifaceted and complex topic and movingly profiles key players…Even readers well-versed in the subject will learn something new. The result is a definitive portrait of a key victory in the battle for LGBTQ rights.
—Publishers Weekly
This is an exhaustive, detailed, and authoritative overview of the fight for marriage equality in the United States…Issenberg's nuanced and insightful reporting brings clarity to this important milestone.
—Booklist
A comprehensive work of civil rights history that is sure to interest political and legal enthusiasts…The author deftly weaves the legislative and legal together to create a full picture for readers.
—Library Journal