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Depuis une perspective située, cette investigation en travail social documente la négociation de modifications à apporter aux représentations culturelles des familles LGBTQ+ circulant dans l’espace public québécois, par quatre parents LGBTQ+ et l’étudiante-chercheure. L’exercice, sous forme de focus group, avait pour but de favoriser l’échange et de créer de nouvelles images pouvant leur sembler plus justes en fonction de leurs propres expériences de parentalité. La démarche visait également à répondre à la question suivante : quelle forme de reconnaissance est recherchée par les parents LGBTQ+ montréalais, et de quelle manière? Elle s’inscrit dans les théories de la justice, où la reconnaissance est un élément clé à la pleine participation des individus et des collectivités dans leur société. Une analyse du contenu thématique, émergeant des réflexions des participants-es au focus group, recense trois statuts subordonnés (selon Nancy Fraser) auxquels les parents LGBTQ+ font face. Il s’agit de statuts liés au projet national québécois, au sexisme et au genrisme, et à la famille naturelle. De plus, l’attention portée aux interactions des parents permet d’observer le souci à autrui prenant place au sein de leurs échanges, à la lumière des quatre phases du care de Tronto et des perspectives de Ricoeur sur la reconnaissance. La quête de reconnaissance est donc exposée non seulement comme une lutte personnelle, mais aussi telle une démarche démontrant l’attention à soi et à l’autre. Cette observation va à l’encontre de certaines représentations culturelles rencontrées où les parents LGBTQ+ sembleraient davantage préoccupés par leurs propres désirs, besoins et droits, que ceux de leur entourage, incluant leurs enfants et leurs pairs marginalisés. Cette recherche qualitative à caractère exploratoire a recours à l’illustration pour interpeller le public ciblé, éliciter les données, développer l’analyse, présenter les matériaux et uniformiser le travail. Les limites observées sont liées au petit échantillonnage comme au caractère artificiel (initié par l’étudiante) du processus de recherche de reconnaissance en groupe. Des recherches ultérieures auprès d’enfants et d’adolescents de parents LGBTQ+, ou encore auprès d’autres groupes minoritaires pourraient mettre en corrélation et solidifier les données mises de l’avant. _____________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : reconnaissance, parentalité, homoparentalité, transparentalité, pluriparentalité, LGBTQ+, queer, care, justice, Fraser, Tronto, Ricoeur, féminisme, bande dessinée, illustration, représentations culturelles, famille, travail social.

«Dysphoria mundi est un texte mutant, qui hybride essai, philosophie, opéra, poésie et autofiction, afin de rendre compte de la transition planétaire en cours. Ce livre apprend au regard à distinguer ce que la propagande nihiliste mainstream cherche à dissimuler : les déplacements irréversibles qui s'opèrent dans les sphères sociales, politiques, sexuelles. Il n'est pas question d'un passé mythique ni d'un avenir messianique, mais d'un présent révolutionnaire. Le XIXe siècle était hystérique ; le XXe, schizophrène ; notre époque est dysphorique. Anxiété généralisée, troubles post-traumatiques, syndrome de dépendance, dysphorie de genre, destruction légitimée de l'écosystème... Voici l'hypothèse que propose ce livre : généraliser la notion de dysphorie afin de la comprendre non pas comme une maladie mentale, mais comme une dissidence politique. L'auteur organise une archive implacable de la fabrication/destruction nécropolitique de la subjectivité dans la modernité, et dessine une cartographie des pratiques d'émancipation susceptibles de transformer l'avenir. On dit souvent qu'il nous est devenu plus facile d'imaginer la fin du monde que de penser la fin du capitalisme. Preciado persiste à observer les preuves de pratiques alternatives à cette impasse : de nouveaux modes de vie jusqu'alors disqualifiés comme improductifs et anormaux se présentent désormais comme la seule issue.»--Page 4 de la couverture.

Cet article témoigne d’une démarche autoethnographique (Haraway 1988, Russell 1999, Chang 2008, Rondeau 2011, Rouleau 2016) relatant l’expérience individuelle et collective du Choeur Maha, une chorale montréalaise se présentant comme féministe. À travers un partage d’expériences inspiré de l’Object-Elicitation Interview Method (Pink 2015), sont exposées dans ce texte les multiples significations qu’accordent les membres à leur expérience au sein du choeur, tant comme lieu d’appartenance et d’épanouissement que comme espace féministe. S’appuyant sur les précédents travaux ayant problématisé la dimension genrée des loisirs culturels, notamment celle de la pratique amatrice du chant (Octobre 2014, Buscatto 2003, 2007, 2013), la démarche consiste à dégager de l’expérience chorale de Maha les articulations concrètes et multiples des concepts de soin (care ; Mestiri 2016), d’empuissancement (empowerment ; Guétat-Bernard et Lapeyre 2017) et d’espace sécuritaire (safe space ; Lewis, Sharp, Remnant et Redpath 2015, Deller 2019), à la fois sur une échelle individuelle et collective, ainsi que dans une optique de résilience et de résistance féministes (Britt 2019).

À partir de l’ethnographie de trois lieux ruraux (deux fermes et un gîte) tenus par des femmes lesbiennes et/ou queer qui s’inscrivent dans une critique écologiste et anticapitaliste de la société tout en questionnant les normes de genre et de sexualité, nous interrogerons la signification de ces choix de vie alternatifs au regard de l’identité des actrices et de la manière dont ils enrichissent la compréhension de la constellation des mouvements écoféministes. Nous observerons qu’avec le déplacement de la ville vers la campagne, et du monde salarié vers l’agriculture de subsistance, elles doivent mettre en place de nouvelles stratégies pour lutter contre l’isolement et s’intégrer localement. Simultanément, ce retour à la terre leur offre de nouvelles possibilités d’émancipation, d’engagement et de soutien aux femmes et aux minorités. Le travail agricole, l’engagement féministe et la politisation du quotidien constituent les différentes facettes d’un même projet : celui de chercher une voie plus juste et plus durable pour notre société.

"The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion, are organized into five sections: (1) Engaging the Past; (2) Mind, Body, and World; (3) Knowledge, Language, and Science; (4) Intersections; (5) Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philosophical traditions that contribute to feminist philosophy. It also foregrounds issues of global concern and scope; shows how feminist theory meshes with rich theoretical approaches that start from transgender identities, race and ethnicity, sexuality, disabilities, and other axes of identity and oppression; and highlights the interdisciplinarity of feminist philosophy and the ways that it both critiques and contributes to the whole range of subfields within philosophy."--The publisher.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the work of sociologists who laid the foundation for queer and crip approaches to disability and to address how queer and crip theory has and can help to re-conceptualize our understandings of health, illness, disability, and sexuality. Methodology/approach This paper is an examination of historical moments and prominent literature within medical sociology and sociology of disability. Sociological and popular understandings of disability and sexuality have often mirrored each other historically. Although this literature review focuses primarily on medical sociology and disability studies literature, some works of scholars specializing in gender studies, sexuality, literature, history, and queer studies are also included Findings In this paper, I argue that the medicalization and pathologization of human differences specifically as it pertains to sexuality and disability within the medical sociological literature have led to constructionist, social model, and feminist critiques. It is these critiques that then laid the foundation for the development of queer and crip theoretical approaches to both disability and sexuality. Originality/value Crip and queer approaches to disability provide a clear call for future sociological research. Few social science scholars have applied queer and crip approaches in empirical studies on disability. The majority of work in this area is located in the humanities and concerned with literary criticism. A broader array of empirical work on the intersection of sexuality and disability from queer/crip perspectives is needed both to refine these postmodern theoretical models and to examine their implications for the complex lived experience that lies at the intersection of sexuality and disability. In queering disability and cripping sexuality and gender, we may be able not only to more fully conceptualize disability, sexuality, and gender as individual social categories, but also to more fully understand the complex intersection of these social locations.

Some authors in disability studies have identified limits of both the medical and social models of disability. They have developed an alternative model, which I call the ‘composite model of disability’, to theorise societies’ ableist norms and structures along with the subjective/phenomenological experience of disability. This model maintains that ableist oppression is not the only source of suffering for disabled people: impairment can be as well. From a feminist, queer, trans activist, anti-ableist perspective and using an intersectional, autoethnographic methodology, I apply this composite model of disability to trans identities to consider the potentially ‘debilitating’ aspects of transness. I argue that transness, like disability, has too often been perceived from two perspectives, medical or social, without the benefit of a third option. From a medical perspective, transness is reduced to an individual pathology curable with hormonal/surgical treatments, a conceptualisation that erases structural oppression. From a social point of view, transness is conceptualised as a neutral condition and variation in sex/gender identity. In this model, structural oppression (transphobia/cisgenderism) is seen as the only cause of ‘trans suffering’. I argue that, just as the medical and social models of disability provide limited opportunities for reflection on the complex experience of disability, medical and social understandings of transness, respectively, are insufficient to describe the complexity of trans experience. I explore the possibilities presented by the application of a composite model of disability in trans studies. By both problematising cisgenderist oppression and acknowledging trans people's subjective experiences of suffering through some of the debilitating aspects of transness, this composite model avoids the pitfalls of the medical and social models. The application of tools from disability studies to trans issues uncovers cisnormativity in disability movements and denounces ableism in trans movements. This will, I hope, solidify alliances between these communities and fields of study.

Select all Front Matter (pp. i-vi) Front Matter (pp. i-vi) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.1 Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii) Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.2 Acknowledgments (pp. ix-xii) Acknowledgments (pp. ix-xii) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.3 Textual Description of the Cover Art (pp. xiii-xvi) Textual Description of the Cover Art (pp. xiii-xvi) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.4 Introduction: Imagined Futures (pp. 1-24) Introduction: Imagined Futures (pp. 1-24) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.5 I have never consulted a seer or psychic; I have never asked a fortune-teller for her crystal ball. No one has searched my tea leaves for answers or my stars for omens, and my palms remain unread. But people have been telling my future for years. Of fortune cookies and tarot cards they have no need: my wheelchair, burn scars, and gnarled hands apparently tell them all they need to know. My future is written on my body. In 1995, six months after the fire, my doctor suggested that my thoughts of graduate school were premature, if not misguided. He... 1 Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips (pp. 25-46) 1 Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips (pp. 25-46) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.6 What would it mean to explore disability in time or to articulate “crip time”? Temporal categories are already commonly used in formulations of disability; one aspect of cripping time might simply be to map the extent to which we conceptualize disability in temporal terms. The medical field in particular has a long tradition of describing disability in reference to time. “Chronic” fatigue, “intermittent” symptoms, and “constant” pain are each ways of defining illness and disability in and through time; they describe disability in terms of duration. “Frequency,” “incidence,” “occurrence,” “relapse,” “remission”: these, too, are the time frames of symptoms, illness,... 2 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X (pp. 47-68) 2 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X (pp. 47-68) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.7 In thinking about crip futurity, I find myself haunted by Ashley X. Born in 1997, the girl known as Ashley X was diagnosed with “static encephalopathy” a few months after her birth. “In the ensuing years,” doctors note, “her development never progressed beyond that of an infant,” and her doctors held no hope that her cognitive or neurological baseline would improve.¹ “At the age of 6 years, she [could] not sit up, ambulate, or use language.”² Concerned about their daughter’s long-term future, Ashley’s parents met with doctors in 2004 to discuss the potential effects of puberty and physical growth on... 3 Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians (pp. 69-85) 3 Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians (pp. 69-85) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.8 The pervasiveness of prenatal testing, and especially its acceptance as part of the standard of care for pregnant women, casts women as responsible for their future children’s able-bodiedness/able-mindedness; prospective parents are urged to take advantage of these services so as to avoid burdening their future children with any disabilities.¹ This notion of “burdening” children finds an echo in the debate over same-sex marriage, with LGBT couples cast as selfish parents, placing their own desires over the physical and mental health of their children (and, by extension, of all children). Moreover, according to Timothy Dailey of the Family Research Council, homosexual... 4 A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation (pp. 86-102) 4 A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation (pp. 86-102) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.9 “Super man,” the billboard exclaims, the unfamiliar gap between the two words emphasizing both the noun and its adjective. Below this phrase is the word “STRENGTH,” followed by the imperative “Pass It On.” At the bottom, in small print, runs the name and web address of the organization behind this public relations campaign: Values.com/Foundation for a Better Life. The “super man” referenced in the caption is, of course, the late Christopher Reeve, the white actor who starred in a series ofSupermanfilms in the 1980s before becoming a quadriplegic in a riding accident in 1995. A black-and-white photograph of... 5 The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters (pp. 103-128) 5 The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters (pp. 103-128) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.10 Controversy came quickly to the cyborg. In 1983,Socialist Reviewinvited several feminist theorists, among them Donna Haraway, “to write about the future of socialist feminism in the context of the early Reagan era.”¹ Haraway responded with “A Manifesto for Cyborgs,” framing the cyborg as a figure of feminist critique.² Her cyborg was a radical border-crosser, blurring the boundaries between human and animal, machine and organism, physical and non-physical.³ Such a cyborg, she argued, could “guide us to a more livable place,” an “elsewhere,” in which “people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid... 6 Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability (pp. 129-148) 6 Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability (pp. 129-148) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.11 Although concern with the environment has long been an animating force in disability studies and activism, “environment” in this context typically refers to the built environment of buildings, sidewalks, and transportation technologies. Indeed, the social model of disability is premised on concern for the built environment, stressing that people are disabled not by their bodies but by their inaccessible environments. (The wheelchair user confronting a flight of steps is probably the most common illustration of this argument.) Yet the very pervasiveness of the social model has prevented disability studies from engaging with the wider environment of wilderness, parks, and nonhuman... 7 Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions (pp. 149-170) 7 Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions (pp. 149-170) https://www-jstor-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.12 When describing disability studies to my students, I often draw on Douglas Baynton’s insight that “disability is everywhere in history once you begin looking for it.”¹ For Baynton, “looking for it” entails not only recovering the stories of disabled people or tracing histories of disability discrimination but also exploring how notions of disability and able-mindedness/able-bodiedness have functioned in different contexts. Baynton issues his provocation to historians, but disability studies scholars in other fields have extended its reach, pushing their own colleagues to recognize disability as a category of analysis. Deeply influenced by and indebted to this work, I use this... 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All Rights Reserved. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Terms & Conditions of Use Privacy Policy Accessibility Cookie Policy Cookie Settings Description In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.

En 1982, le professeur René Küss plaide à la télévision pour un protocole appelant à distinguer entre « vrais » et « faux » trans’ : de « vrais trans’ » ne causent aucun trouble dans le genre : on leur accorde une aide exceptionnelle (l’opération) par laquelle - hommes devenus femmes ou femmes devenues hommes - ils rentrent dans l’ordre du genre et de l’identité. Telle est l’une des premières expressions de ce que nous proposons d’appeler le « bouclier thérapeutique ». Les trois décennies qui suivent voient s’affronter les affirmations transidentaires et l’idéologie dominante des « traitants ». Appareil de légitimation d’un ordre ancien, le « bouclier thérapeutique » ne serait-il plus aujourd’hui pour ses partisans que le dernier vestige d’une ère marquée par l’effritement d’un deuxième bouclier, juridique celui-ci, garantissant que la libre disposition de l’état civil reste une exception ? Sur ces questions qui interrogent profondément les représentations que nos sociétés se font d’elles-mêmes, peut-être le temps est-il venu d’ouvrir la route tracée par la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines aux nouveaux paradigmes amorcés par les Études de Genre.

« The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the 'happiness duty', the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression sometimes causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including "Mrs. Dalloway", "The Well of Loneliness", "Bend It Like Beckham", and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who are challenged by, and themselves challenge, the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings, she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy. »--Quatrième de couverture.

In this essay I explore how queer theory might account for postsurgical intersex bodies of diminished genital tactility. In other words, I evaluate whether a critique of surgery’s effects is possible from a queer theoretical perspective on the body. I contend that for this purpose queer theory must do more than focus on bodily sensations such as pleasure, shame, and touching. The essay makes four key claims: first, that the desensitized postsurgical body cannot be accounted for by a queer discourse in which sexual pleasure is a form of hedonistic activism; second, that a queer discourse of shame enables a degree of critical engagement with the surgical creation of atypically sensate bodies; third, that pleasure and shame are both queer sensations, and queer theory’s assumption of a sensorial basis to cultural critique, which is exemplified by the queer touch, flounders when confronted with the desensitized intersex body; fourth, that if queer theory is figured as a kind of reaching—but not necessarily touching—then it can be of greater use in accounting for the problematic yet ambivalent effects of intersex surgery.

As the interdisciplinary field of disability studies develops its own theoretical paradigms, it necessarily borrows from various sources. Such borrowing means that disability scholars have not had to reinvent the wheel but have been able to build on the conceptual foundations of identity-based theories that have grown out of other interdisciplinary fields, such as gender studies and critical race studies. But disability studies offers as much to its predecessors as it borrows from them. This essay explores the productive reciprocity between queer theory and disability studies, queer identity and crip identity, queer activism and crip activism.