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Publié pour la première fois en 2001, ce livre pionnier a permis l'ouverture d'un espace théorique et politique queer en France. Il s'agit d'une boîte à outils destinée aux activistes en quête de cultures et de politiques sexuelles qui ne soient pas (homo ou hétéro) normatives. Stimulants et provocants, les textes réunis dans ce recueil constituent également une introduction critique à la déconstruction des genres et aux travaux de Judith Butler et de Michel Foucault. Ils mettent de plus en évidence l'apport des subcultures trans, butch et SM à une réflexion plus large sur les relations entre pouvoir et savoir, ainsi que le formidable potentiel des sexualités dissidentes et la continuité politique entre féminisme pro-sexe et activisme queer. Cette nouvelle édition comprend trois essais inédits sur le " devenir femme " de Deleuze, l'utopie sexuelle urbaine de Gayle Rubin et la post-pornographie selon Annie Sprinkle.

Le pédopsychiatre présente les découvertes récentes de la psychanalyse, la neurobiologie, la génétique, l'histoire, la sociologie, etc., à propos de la construction de l'identité sexuelle et de la part d'inné et d'acquis dans la définition des préférences sexuelles.

The declaration that a work of art is “about sex” is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring. Sex Objects examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the “boring parts” of Moby-Dick, the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, “bad sex” and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature of desire. In Sex Objects, Doyle offers a creative and original exploration of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a piece of art “about sex” reveals surprisingly little about the work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory, she reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to better understand how the two meet-and why it matters.

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Internet, Literature, Music, Performance, and Politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a wide array of backgrounds: scholars, journalists, artists, doctors, scientists, lawyers, activists, and an enormous range of ideologies and points of view are represented. Major entries provide in-depth information and consider the intellectual and cultural implications of their subjects in a global context. Information is completely up-to-date, including full coverage and analysis of such current or ongoing issues as same-sex marriage/civil union and the international AIDS epidemic. Additionally, there are important appendices covering international sodomy laws and archival institutions, which will be of great value to researchers. The Encyclopedia is fully cross-referenced and many entries carry a bibliography. Where possible internet references have been given and there is a full index.The combination of its wide scope, determined international coverage and appendices make the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture a uniquely ambitious work and an extremely rich source of information. It is a priority addition for all libraries serving scholars and students with an interest in GLBTQ culture, history and politics across the disciplines.

'What is oppression ?' 'What should be done about it ?' Organized around these questions, Theorizing feminisms : a reader provides an overview of theoritical feminist writing about the quest for gender justice. Incorporating both classic and cutting-edge material, the reader takes into account the full diversity of women, highlighting the effects of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexuality, and religion on women's experience. Theorizing feminisms is organized into four sections and includes fifty-four essays. The first section introduces several basic concepts commonly employed when thinking about sexism - oppression, social construction, essentialism, intersectionality, gender, race, and class - and also raises questions about the perspective and legitimacy of the theorist. The second section surveys three approaches that attempt to characterize in a general way the source of injustice toward women : humanist feminism ('the sameness approach'), gynocentric feminism ('the difference approach'), and dominance feminism. Offering an alternate perspective, the third section introduces two 'localizing' approaches, grounded in postmodernism and identity politics, respectively. Skeptical of theories that attempt to analyze social phenomena across history and culture, authors in this section challenge, rather than answer, the text's organizing questions. The final section explores the relationship of feminism theory to three liberatory projects - postcolonialism, neo-materialism, and queer theory - that do not characterize themselves as feminist, yet take gender as a significant category of analysis. Each section opens with an introduction and each essay is followed by helpful study questions. the majority of the essays are presented in their entirety. Theorizing feminisms underscores the strong connection between feminist theory and practice by including essays that illustrate important political inspirations or applications of each theoritical approach. It also presents versions of the same approach from various points in history, revealing feminist theory to be dynamic and evolving, rather than static. Ideal for interdisciplinary courses in feminist theory, this volume will also serve as an invaluable reference for current and future generations of theorists."

A partir d'une enquête menée en France et en Californie, l'auteure décrit les conditions d'accession à l'homoparentalité, depuis le milieu des années 1970. Elle donne la parole à de jeunes adultes élevés par des homosexuels pour mieux poser la question de l'éducation et de l'orientation sexuelle de ces enfants.

keynote speech presented at Translating Identity conference held at University of Vermont in February 2006.

A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other. Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.

Homme ou femme. Existe-t-il un espace viable entre ou hors ces deux catégories ? Une invention théorique et poétique a tenté de fournir, au cours de l'histoire, une réponse à cette question : le " troisième sexe ", celui qui défierait la loi du genre. L'expression désigne, à partir du XIXe siècle, les figures considérées comme déplacées par rapport aux canons de la virilité et de la féminité : les " tantinettes " traquées par la police dans le Paris de Balzac, les saphistes de roman et les invertis étudiés par la psychiatrie, les " fastueux travestis " des bals populaires, les femmes émancipées de la Belle Epoque et les premiers transsexuels opérés des années 1930. Derrière toutes ces figures dissidentes, l'idée d'un " troisième sexe " provoque, dérange et renvoie la société à cette énigme inépuisable : que signifie vraiment être une " femme " ou un " homme " ? Exploitant des archives inédites de la police, des textes méconnus de la sexologie ou de la littérature, Laure Murat a élaboré ici une analyse inattendue et passionnante, éclairant d'un jour nouveau l'archéologie des discours sur les questions de genre que notre époque ne cesse d'interroger.

In her paper, "A Bakhtinian Perspective on Feminist Lesbian Crime Writing," Sarah Posman discusses how the Bakhtinian concepts "ethos" and "chronotope" add to the discussion of feminist lesbian crime writing. She sets out from a Bakhtinian typology of action stories and situates recent crime writing as a curious mixture of mission stories and transformation stories. Focusing on the innovative potential of feminist lesbian crime writing, Posman explores how such stories tackle the iconically masculine and heterosexual conventions of the detective story and manage to balance tradition and subversion successfully. Posman infuses her analysis with issues central to feminism and queer theory and considers how a feminist lesbian detective hero can "change the world," that is, how such an "other" ethos impinges on crime writing's conventional chronotopical constellation. The hero and world under discussion are those of the popular Kate Delafield series by Katherine V. Forrest.

Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century. Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists, and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.

Humain, inhumain regroupe cinq entretiens accordés par Judith Butler entre 1994 et 2004, qui marquent autant d'étapes de son travail, des premiers écrits sur le genre aux interventions récentes sur la " guerre contre le terrorisme " en passant par Bodies that Matter, et qui constituent l'occasion d'un effort de clarification, d'un regard rétrospectif visant à dégager les continuités et les évolutions du travail en cours, tout en apportant des éléments de réponse aux débats et aux objections soulevés par les thèses de l'auteure. A travers eux apparaît la préoccupation centrale et constante de la philosophe américaine, de Gender Trouble à Vie précaire : la façon dont les normes qui nous constituent et les identités qui nous définissent contribuent à établir la frontière qui sépare l'humain de l'inhumain.

Dans cet ouvrage majeur publié en 1990 aux États-Unis, la philosophe Judith Butler invite à penser le trouble qui perturbe le genre pour définir une politique féministe sans le fondement d’une identité stable. Ce livre désormais classique est au principe de la théorie et de la politique queer : non pas solidifier la communauté d’une contre-culture, mais bousculer l’hétérosexualité obligatoire en la dénaturalisant. Il ne s’agit pas d’inversion, mais de subversion. Judith Butler localise les failles qui témoignent, à la marge, du dérèglement plus général de ce régime de pouvoir. En même temps, elle questionne les injonctions normatives qui constituent les sujets sexuels. Jamais nous ne parvenons à nous conformer tout à fait aux normes : entre genre et sexualité, il y a toujours du jeu. Le pouvoir ne se contente pas de réprimer ; il ouvre en retour, dans ce jeu performatif, la possibilité d’inventer de nouvelles formations du sujet. La philosophe relit Foucault, Freud, Lacan et Lévi-Strauss, mais aussi Beauvoir, Irigaray, Kristeva et Wittig, afin de penser, avec et contre eux, sexe, genre et sexualité – nos désirs et nos plaisirs. Pour jeter le trouble dans la pensée, Judith Butler donne à voir le trouble qui est déjà dans nos vies