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This article attempts to look into the fictional narrativization of women's significant and distinctive relationship with nature in Disney's Moana. Emphasizing the power and the unity of women and nature in Polynesian indigenous culture, Moana suggests that the destruction of nature results from exploitative and manipulative masculinity. Through ecofeminist perspectives, this essay observes that Moana offers critical views and promotes awareness of gender and environmental issues. These ideas are communicated through the visual and verbal depiction of power relations that defy patriarchal tradition alongside the expressions of protest against devaluation and abuse of nature and women. To put it in the context of the development of themes in Disney's princess line, Moana's presence can be a novel alternative to the typical images of women, namely a new portrayal of a female character whose primary concern is not romance but instead the sustainability of the environment where she lives. This study also confirms that Disney's animated princess films continuously adjust with the dynamics of global feminist discourse. © 2021 Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. All rights reserved.

À travers l’analyse de la bande dessinée Deer Woman créée en 2015 par Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Canada), notre article a pour objectif principal d’interroger la notion de « super-héroïne » à l’aune de représentations autochtones engagées. Il s’agit de voir en quoi cette revitalisation du mythe traditionnel de la Femme Cerf (Deer Woman) interroge l’identité en termes de sexe et de genre, la culture et la place des femmes autochtones, en prenant une position radicale face au problème sociétal des féminicides en Amérique du Nord. Nous postulons que la figure de Deer Woman peut aussi être vue aujourd’hui comme une allégorie mettant en garde contre la domination masculine sur les femmes et sur toutes autres formes de vie. Tout d’abord, nous étudierons les caractéristiques formelles de Deer Woman et les mythes fondateurs autochtones qui en sont à l’origine. Nous montrerons ensuite en quoi cette super-héroïne dont les pouvoirs apparaissent après qu’elle a été sexuellement agressée, tend à dénoncer et lutter contre les féminicides touchant les femmes autochtones. Enfin, nous nous demanderons comment cette bande dessinée pourrait laisser entrevoir l’émergence d’une super-héroïne autochtone éco-féministe.

"Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed-up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom. In You Play the Girl, Chocano blends formative personal stories with insightful and emotionally powerful analysis. Moving from Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, Flashdance to Frozen, the progressive '70s through the backlash '80s, the glib '90s, and the pornified aughts--and at stops in between--she explains how growing up in the shadow of "the girl" taught her to think about herself and the world and what it means to raise a daughter in the face of these contorted reflections. In the tradition of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more fluid than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen."--Page 4 of cover.

HE MASK YOU LIVE IN follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must navigate to become “real” men. Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tactics to combat it. The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.

It has been an assumption of most anti-pornography discourse that porn damages women (and children) in a variety of ways. In Porno? Chic!, the author interrogated this assumption by examining the correlation between the incidence of sexual violence and other indicators of misogyny, and the availability and accessibility of pornography within a number of societies. This article develops that work with a specific focus on the regulatory environment as it relates to pornography and sexual representation. Does a liberal regulatory regime in sexual culture correlate with a relatively advanced state of sexual politics in a given country? Conversely, does an illiberal regime, where pornography and other forms of sexual culture are banned or severely restricted, correlate with relatively strong patriarchal structures? A comparative cross-country analysis seeks to explain the correlations identified, and to assess the extent to which the availability of porn can be viewed as a causal or a consequential characteristic of those societies where feminism has achieved significant advances.

''This book brings together writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. It investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn - that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume this kind of 'industry'. With contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn Comella, Jane Ward, Ariane Cruz, Kevin Heffernan, and more.''-- Fourni par l'éditeur.

Les femmes sont beaucoup moins visibles que les hommes dans les médias d'information. Les femmes, lorsqu'elles sont interviewées, le sont principalement en qualité de mères, de simples témoins ou de victimes. Sur la scène médiatique, les rôles de l'expert, de l'intellectuel ou du professionnel reste largement préemptés par les hommes. D'où vient cette représentation biaisée des sexes ?

Commentaire de l'exposition elles@centre pompidou, Artistes femmes dans la collection du Musée national d’art moderne, centre de création industrielle qui eut lieu du 27 mai 2009 - 21 févr. 2011 au centre Pompidou à Paris.

Les artistes contemporains délaissent les grandes luttes communes, les partis politiques, et acceptent les subventions de l'État. Ils refusent les étiquettes et se moquent du mythe de l'artiste guidant le peuple. Quand l'oeuvre d'art devient fragments, mouvement, quand son sens est ouvert et dépend de l'expérience du spectateur, quelle est son action sur le monde? Peut-on encore croire à sa portée politique? Les nostalgiques pleurent la disparition de l'art engagé. Pour Ève Lamoureux, l'art engagé n'a jamais cédé; il résiste d'une autre manière, à un autre pouvoir, sur d'autres terrains. Exit la division entre l'art pour l'art et l'art au service d'une idée. Exit la conception avant-gardiste militante de l'art engagé. L'engagement actuel passe par une action micropolitique multiforme, une création soucieuse de l'Autre, à la fois autonome et collective, misant sur le processus et la participation. Ainsi, l'auteure nous montre de quelle façon l'art apporte une nouvelle définition de l'engagement politique. Cet essai analyse la démarche d'artistes québécois comme l'ATSA, BGL, Doyon/Demers, Danyèle Alain, Sylvie Cotton, Nicole Jolicoeur, Devora Neumark, Alain-Martin Richard, Jean-Claude St-Hilaire et Raphaëlle de Groot. En prolongeant, sur le plan théorique, des créations souvent performatives et éphémères (décors, manifestations, dialogues, oeuvres à compléter soi-même, etc.), ce livre les situe dans l'histoire récente de l'art et met en lumière leur dimension politique.

Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance within the wider context of minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and happenings

Feminist and multiculturalist efforts to uncover the assumptions underpinning the production of art have transformed our understanding of visual culture. The field of art history, however, continues to downplay the race and gender politics informing its own interpretative practices. With Other Eyes brings together leading cultural theorists to demonstrate how feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist concerns can successfully and imaginatively be incorporated into the study of art. Rejecting strict definitions of “high art,” the contributors add photography, installation art, and film to the list of more conventional art forms to examine, for example, the construction of black femininity as influenced by Josephine Baker, Grace Jones, and the women depicted in Picasso’s Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon;the nationalist and class premises in nineteenth-century British Museum guidebooks; and the gendered visions of colonial discourse in advertisements for Ralph Lauren and the Body Shop.

Feminist film theory has made the psychic and political limitations of representational visibility abundantly clear. Yet the Left continues to promote visibility politics as a crucial aspect of progressive struggle. Unmarked examines the fraught relation between political and representational visibility and invisibility within both mainstream and avant-garde art. Suggesting that there may be some political power in an active disappearance from the visual field, Phelan looks carefully at examples of such absences in photography, film, theatre, the iconography of anti-abortion demonstrations, and performance art. A boldly specultative analysis of contemporary culture, Unmarked is a controversial study of the politics of performance. Situating performance theory within emerging theories of psychoanalysis, feminism, and cultural studies, Phelan argues that the non-reproductive power of performance offers a different way of thinking about cultural production and reproduction more generally. Written from and for the Left, Phelan's readings of the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Mira Schor, Yvonne Rainer, Jennie Livingstone, Tom Stoppard, Angelika Festa and Operation Rescue radically rethink the politics of cultural representation.

"This book is a detailed study of the powerful and innovative role women artists played in the development and expansion of performance art. This hybrid art form, which combines the visual arts with ingredients drawn from experimental dance, theater, music, and poetry, emerged in the late 1960's at the same time as the women's movement. Many women artists turned to performance art in order to translate and capture visually the concerns, demands and visions of the women's movement; thus women led the way in performance art's explorations of autobiography, ritual, mass spectacle and the creation of characters and personae. The Amazing Decade, edited by Moira Roth, with an introduction by Mary Jan Jacob, culls the best from women's performance history, highlighting pivotal works, chronicling changes and projecting future directions: the book contains a major essay by Roth on the history and character of women's performance art; individual profiles on thirty-seven artists and collectives; an extensive bibliography; and a year-by-year chronology from 1956 onward in which women's performance art is set in the context of history and the women's movement. Profusely illustrated, The Amazing Decade is an indispensable reference book and an invaluable teaching tool"--