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Dans cet ouvrage essentiel de la théorie queer, Jack Halberstam s’attaque au statut protégé de la masculinité masculine et montre que la masculinité féminine lui offre une alternative distincte depuis plus de deux siècles. Démontrant que la masculinité féminine n’est pas une mauvaise imitation de la virilité, mais une mise en scène vivante et dramatique de genres hybrides et minoritaires, Halberstam catalogue la diversité des expressions de genre chez les femmes masculines, depuis les pratiques pré-lesbiennes du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux performances contemporaines des drag kings.

An examination of the social and cultural significance of body art by a major new voice. The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in body art, in which the artist's body is integral to the work of art. With the revoking of NEA funding for such artists as Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and others, public awareness and media coverage of body-oriented performances have increased. Yet the roots of body art extend to the 1960s and before. In this definitive book, Amelia Jones explores body art projects from the 1960s and 1970s and relates their impact to the work of body artists active today, providing a new conceptual framework for defining postmodernism in the visual arts. Jones begins with a discussion of the shifting intellectual terrain of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the work of Ana Mendieta. Moving to an examination of the reception of Jackson Pollock's "performative" acts of painting, she argues that Pollock is a pivotal figure between modernism and postmodernism. The book continues with explorations of Vito Acconci and Hannah Wilke, whose practices exemplify a new kind of performance that arose in the late 1960s, one that represents a dramatic shift in the conception of the artistic subject. Jones then surveys the work of a younger generation of artists -- including Laurie Anderson, Orlan, Maureen Connor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Laura Aguilar, and Bob Flanagan -- whose recent work integrates technology and issues of identity to continue to expand the critique begun in earlier body art projects. Embracing an exhilarating mix of methodologies and perspectives (including feminism, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory), this rigorous and elegantexamination of body art provides rich historical insight and essential context that rethinks the parameters of postmodern culture.

Les études de Michel Foucault sur la sexualité et son histoire, de même que les premiers travaux de Judith Butler sur la fluidité des postures de genre, ont contribué à l’émergence de la pensée queer, qui récuse le fixisme identitaire sans pour autant rejeter la notion d’identité. Ce courant de pensée a eu des répercussions tant dans le domaine des études féministes que dans celui des études LGBT ou encore des études sur les sexualités qui s’intéressent aux marges de la société hétérosexiste. Au-delà des oppositions binaires du masculin et du féminin ou de l’hétérosexualité et de l’homosexualité, il y a toujours un indécidable, qui résiste à la bipartition, une zone de flou, d’hybride et de poreux. C’est cet indécidable qui force la réflexion, non pas pour le faire entrer dans une catégorie d’opposition binaire, mais pour faire rebondir la pensée. Des textes de Carmen Gill, Ross Higgins, Diane Lamoureux, Marie-José Nadal, Tania Navarro Swain, Paul-André Perron, Robert Schwartzwald et Colette St-Hilaire.

Inside the Academy and Out demonstrates that the pedagogical and theoretical insights offered by lesbian/gay/queer studies can have relevance to a broader social sphere. The essayists represented here come from a wide range of disciplines, including English, education, philosophy, sociology, and women's studies. Their essays are divided into two broad areas: 'Pedagogy and Research' and 'Spheres of Action.' Taken together, they explore teaching and research theory, examining their implications in areas such as AIDS education, social services, law reform, and popular culture.

Sky, un Hméga-club" en plein essor situé au coeur du village gai de Montréal, représente plusieurs tendances au sein des clubs et des villages gais de l'Amérique du Nord à la fin du XXième siècle. Ce projet aborde les opérations quotidiennes du Sky, en tenant compte de son architecture complexe, de ses pratiques de gestion, et de sa popularité à l'intérieur du village ainsi que des ramifications théoriques de cet établissement pour la communauté gaie et pour la culture des clubs de nuit en général. Au plan théorique, ce complexe récréatif présentement en expansion constitue un phénomène ni complètement opprimant, ni entièrement libérateur. Bien que le Sky offre certains des avantages d'un "méga-club" pour la communauté gaie--plus grande diversité, accessibilité, et communauté--il possède également les désavantages de ces établissements: la concentration du pouvoir économique, une moins grande présence gaie dans les rues, et la promotion de certaines identités et cultures gaies plutôt que d'autres.

‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the US military, Butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Yet she also argues that speech is ‘excitable’ and fluid, because its effects often are beyond the control of the speaker, shaped by fantasy, context and power structures. In a novel and courageous move, she urges caution concerning the use of legislation to restrict and censor speech, especially in cases where injurious language is taken up by aesthetic practices to diminish and oppose the injury, such as in rap and popular music. Although speech can insult and demean, it is also a form of recognition and may be used to talk back; injurious speech can reinforce power structures, but it can also repeat power in ways that separate language from its injurious power. Skillfully showing how language’s oppositional power resides in its insubordinate and dynamic nature and its capacity to appropriate and defuse words that usually wound, Butler also seeks to account for why some clearly hateful speech is taken to be iconic of free speech, while other forms are more easily submitted to censorship. In light of current debates between advocates of freedom of speech and ‘no platform’ and cancel culture, the message of Excitable Speech remains more relevant now than ever.

This collection addresses the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Cet article expose de façon schématique comment certains aspects de la pensée de Foucault dépassent les deux pôles qui ont défini la plupart des débats dans le champ des études gaies et lesbiennes à propos de la sexualité

"Taking on those who would limit sexual freedom, New Sexual Agendas challenges the notion that there are fixed sexual behaviors for men and women. This engaging collection draws on a number of disciplines including women's studies, literature, gender studies, cultural studies, history, politics, education, sociology, and psychology."

This book is a wide-ranging anthology which discusses the nature and diversity of queer studies, its foundations, and some of the most pressing issues in the field.

Line Chamberland retrace la vie de femmes qui ont eu le courage de leurs amours à une époque où la condamnation sociale du lesbianisme était unanime. À partir de nombreux témoignages, l’auteure démontre de quelle façon s’exerçait le contrôle social du lesbianisme, quel rôle jouait la famille et comment diverses instances comme les institutions religieuses, l’appareil judiciaire et les autorités psychomédicales veillaient à ce que ces femmes se conforment aux diktats, les poussant parfois à la marginalité ou les obligeant à adopter diverses stratégies de dissimulation.

The essential history of queer theory The reclamation of the term queer over the last several decades marked a shift in the study of sexuality from a focus on supposedly essential categories such as gay and lesbian, to more fluid notions of sexual identity. On the cutting-edge of this significant shift was Annamarie Jagose’s classic text Queer Theory: An Introduction. In this groundbreaking work, Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century. Blending insights from prominent theorists such as Judith Butler and David Halperin, Jagose illustrates that queer theory's challenge is to create new ways of thinking, not only about fixed sexual identities such as straight and gay, but about other supposedly immovable notions such as sexuality and gender, and man and woman. First released almost 25 years ago, this groundbreaking work has provided a foundation for the continuing evolution of queer theory in the twenty-first century.

A partir de nombreux témoignages, ce livre dresse un portrait des bisexuels dans leur infinie variété, leur histoire, leur quotidien.

Bringing together some of the classic sociological statements and the new sociology of homosexual desire, this book points to new synthetic approaches to queer studies. It aims to productively engage the pioneering work of queer theorists.

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Inside the Visible presents a gendered reading of more than thirty women artists of vastly different background and experience. The work of important yet previously "invisible" figures is highlighted alongside the work of established artists to create a retheorized interpretation of the art of this century. Structured in terms of recurrent cycles over time, Inside the Visible focuses on three periods (the 1930s and 1940s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the 1990s) that anticipated a wave of political repression, nationalism, and xenophopia, often stimulating artistic production that redefined practice. Illustrated essays document each artist in the collection. In addition, four general essays trace the connections among the artists. These take up such issues as why artistic recognition eluded certain artists and why their work is only just becoming visible today. They also address overlapping themes such as gender and sexuality; the intersection of racial, class, ethnic, sexual, and regional identities; and the nature of the relationship between work and viewer.

Foreword by Margaret Cruikshank Introduction by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron By celebrating the differences among lesbian scholars and attending to the ways in which the field has been shaped by shifting politics and the emergence of queer studies, this collection challenges the limits of lesbian studies while affirming its value. Forty essays arranged in six parts explore the history of lesbian studies as well as its current impact on conceptions of identity and community, teaching, academic disciplines, university practices, and the development of feminist and queer theories. The collection offers stirring personal testimony; multicultural and international perspectives and established and new voices; strategies for integrating lesbian studies into the curriculum; and contributions from lesbians working in libraries, athletic departments, and students services. Throughout, the contributors address the ways in which lesbian studies has transformed and will continue to transform traditional disciplines, practices, and thought.

This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. The contributors ring different interests and approaches to bear on theoretical and empirical material from a wide range of sources. The book is divided into four sections: cartographies/identities; sexualised spaces: global/local; sexualised spaces: local/global; sites of resistance. Each section is separately introduced. Beyond the bibliography, an annotated guide to further reading is also provided to help the reader map their own way through the literature.