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La polyamorie féministe est une nouvelle utopie collective pour celles qui rêvent d’un monde égalitaire, féministe et multiple. Dans ce monde idéal, nous, les femmes, nous ne serions pas divisées e…

La Lettre présente également un dossier sur les droits des femmes et des questions du genre. La situation en Pologne est encore une fois pointée du doigt avec une offensive conservatrice, paternaliste et familialiste des mouvements de droites polonaises et du gouvernement actuel, phonème mis en perspective dans un contexte économique plus large par Weronika Grzebalska.

En 1903, à Berlin, Anna Rueling appelait le mouvement homosexuel et le mouvement des femmes à s’entraider puisque tous deux luttaient pour la liberté et l’autodétermination individuelle. Plus d’un siècle plus tard, quelles convergences peut-on observer entre féminismes et luttes contre l’homophobie? Sur le plan de la pensée, quels rapprochements contemporains peut-on établir entre le champ des études féministes et celui de la diversité sexuelle et de genre? Comment s’articule l’intersection entre ces deux systèmes de différenciation hiérarchique que sont le sexisme et l’hétérosexisme ? Quels théories et concepts y circulent de manière transversale, et avec quelles redéfinitions? Ces questions ont guidé l’organisation du colloque «Féminismes et luttes contre l’homophobie: zones de convergence» tenu dans le cadre du congrès de l’ACFAS 2014 à l’Université Concordia, Montréal, le 16 mai 2014.

Dévorées dans l'intimité, les séries révèlent nos désirs, nos peurs les plus profondes, nos fantasmes et nos tabous. Grâce à la mutliplication des personnages de femmes complexes depuis les années 2000, les séries mettent en scène des sexualités féminines qui évoluent sans cesse. De Sex and the City, Friends et Buffy à Girls, Masters of Sex, Orange is the New Black ou bien Transparent, elles osent enfin montrer ce dont nos sociétés occidentales ont encore parfois du mal à parler. De la morsure de vampire au cunnilingus, de la défloration au BDSM, Sex and the Series s'empare d'images marquantes pour interroger certains concepts comme le male gaze ou la capacité d'agir et met en perspective la représentation de l'orgasme féminin, du consentement ou encore de la lesbienne butch. A travers quatre thématiques - la parole, le plaisir, les violences et les sexualités queer - Iris Brey analyse comment les séries américaines, en s'éloignant des images du porno et du cinéma, permettent de changer notre perception des sexualités et d'enclencher même une révolution télévisuelle

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.

"Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists' queer tactics and infectious concepts. In the first such anthology to be centred on artists' writings, numerous conversations about queer practice are brought together from diverse individual, social and cultural contexts. Together these texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference"--Back cover.

This paper offers insights into how the teaching of queer topics in English language arts classes can be reframed by bridging the goals, practices and conceptual tools of queer theory to literacy teaching. Drawing on an ethnographic classroom study, which explored a 13-week high school Gay and Lesbian Literature course, this paper discusses how teaching an English literature curriculum centred on the voices and stories of LGBTQI people constitutes a meaningful site for learning and teaching. In the process, I show how a queer-themed literature curriculum not only intervenes disruptively into the heteronormative space of school through its content but also through pedagogical practices that open up new lines of thinking for understanding diverse sexualities and genders. Through vignettes from the classroom, I illustrate how queer moments were enacted in this high school course as the class (a) deconstructed literary and media texts; (b) used moments of discomfort for learning; (c) produced counter-narratives through creative acts; and (d) engaged in experiential learning activities that troubled commonsense understandings of sexuality, sex and gender. The paper aims to provide educators and administrators with ideas on how a comprehensive queer-inclusive English literature curriculum can be implemented in high schools.

Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories" is the first publication to address queer feminist politics, methods and theories in relation to the visual arts, including new media, installation and performance art. Despite the crucial contribution of considerations of 'queer' to feminism in other disciplines of the humanities, and the strong impact of feminist art history on queer visual theory, a visible and influential queer feminist art history has remained elusive. This book fills the gap by offering a range of essays by key North American and European scholars, both emerging and renowned, who address the historiographic and political questions arising from the relationship between art history and queer theory in order to help map exclusions and to offer models of a new queer feminist art historical or curatorial approach.

Feminism is Queer is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. While guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of "queer feminism, " which presents queer theory as continuous with feminist theory. While there have been significant conceptual tensions between second wave feminism and traditional lesbian and gay studies, queer theory offers a paradigm for understanding gender, sex, and sexuality that avoids the conflict in order to develop solidarity among those interested in feminist theory and those interested in lesbian and gay rights. This accessible and comprehensive textbook carefully explains nuanced theoretical terminology and includes extensive suggested further reading to provide the reader with a full andthorough understanding of both disciplines.--Publisher information.

Camp—a sensibility, a style, and a form of artistic selfexpression—is an elusive concept said to be in the eye of the beholder. To refute Susan Sontag’s (1966) claims that camp is apolitical and not especially homosexual, a number of recent scholarly works have been geared toward revealing camp’s fundamental gayness. With the odd footnote aside, lesbian camp has been collapsed into the category of gay male camp, if not eclipsed entirely. Despite the negligible efforts made to legitimize lesbian camp, there are numerous salient cultural examples one might draw on to illustrate, typify, and substantiate a lesbian camp sensibility. I lay the ground work for this scholarly exercise by outlining various definitions and critiques of camp, and by discussing its history and application to queer theory. Then, to unveil lesbian camp, three nonmutually exclusive categories are discussed: classic, erotic, and radical. By gathering various strands of inquiry, and various textual examples (e.g., photography, artistic performances, and literary tropes), this article attempts to reach a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of lesbian camp.

Les possibilités de communication anonyme permises par les nouvelles technologies amènent des personnes qui ont en commun des pratiques ou des expériences qui les stigmatisent à se retrouver à l’abri des regards pour échanger entre elles et former des communautés en ligne. Ce faisant, elles se réapproprient leur expérience dans un langage choisi qui leur permet de redonner sens à des identités et des pratiques marginales ou considérées comme déviantes ou pensées comme relevant de la pathologie par le discours médical. L’enquête que nous avons menée dans une communauté en ligne de personnes trans éclaire la manière dont la fréquentation de celle-ci permet à ces personnes de se (re)connaître dans leur expérience particulière du corps et du genre et de faire sens de cette expérience. La volonté communément partagée par ces personnes de penser autrement leur expérience donne lieu à la rencontre d’une multitude de conceptions différentes, et parfois incompatibles entre elles, de l’identité de genre et de l’expérience trans. L’analyse se penche plus particulièrement sur la régulation du discours et des échanges qui est faite par les modérateurs dans ce contexte et sur le type de consensus qu’elle rend possible.

""Désir(s)", "Mondialisation", "Nudité", "Race", "Voix"... Les soixante-six textes thématiques de cette encyclopédie explorent les reconfigurations en cours des études de genre. Trois axes transversaux organisent cette enquête collective: le corps, la sexualité, les rapports sociaux. Dans les activités familiales, sportives, professionnelles, artistiques ou religieuses, les usages du corps constituent désormais un terrain privilégié pour appréhender les normes et les rapports de genre. Les pratiques érotiques que les sociétés, à travers l'histoire, ont catégorisées comme normales ou déviantes occupent quant à elles une place inédite pour éclairer les articulations entre hiérarchies des sexes et des sexualités. Enfin, les inégalités liées au genre sont de plus en plus envisagées en relation avec celles liées à la classe sociale, la couleur de peau, l'apparence physique, la santé ou encore l'âge. Cette approche multidimensionnelle des rapports sociaux a transformé radicalement les manières de penser la domination au sein des recherches sur le genre. En analysant les concepts, les enquêtes empiriques et les débats caractéristiques de ces transformations saillantes, les contributrices et contributeurs de cet ouvrage dessinent une cartographie critique des études de genre en ce début de XXIe siècle."--Page 4 de la couverture.

This dissertation studies the cultural significance of Canadian-American singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright's (b. 1973) album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (Decca, 2010). Lulu was written, recorded, and toured in the years surrounding the illness and eventual death of his mother, beloved Quebecoise singer/songwriter Kate McGarrigle. The album, performed as a classical song cycle, stands out amongst Wainwright's musical catalogue as a hybrid composition that mixes classical and popular musical forms and styles. More than merely a collection of songs about death, loss, and personal suffering, Lulu is a vehicle that enabled him to grieve through music. I argue that Wainwright's performativity, as well as the music itself, can be understood as queer, or as that which transgresses traditional or expected boundaries. In this sense, Wainwright's artistic identity and musical trajectory resemble a rhizome, extending in multiple directions and continually expanding to create new paths and outcomes. Instances of queerness reveal themselves in the genre hybridity of the Lulu song cycle, the emotional vulnerability of Wainwright's vocal performance, the deconstruction of gender norms in live performance, and the circulation of affect within the performance space. In this study, I examine the song cycle form, Wainwright's musical score and vocal performance, live performance videos, and fan reactions to live performances in order to identify meaningful moments where Wainwright's musical and performative decisions queer audience expectations. While these musical moments contribute to the already rich and varied lineage of the gay male artist in both classical and popular music, I argue that Wainwright's queer performativity and nontraditional musical choices speak to larger issues important to American culture in the contemporary moment. These issues include the visibility of male public mourning and the healing power of artistic expression in the face of traumatic loss.

Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina is typically read as representative of the negative effects of trauma. This essay suggests that one’s shame can be used to recompose the shamed self, enabling one to (re)connect with others.