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Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of race and ethnicity have been strategically foregrounded in the art of any engaged artist, to the exclusion of many other concerns, the demise of apartheid offers the possibility of exploring other dimensions of lived experience in South Africa. For feminists, this is potentially a very positive moment when questions of gender – so long subordinated to the structural issue of ‘race’ under apartheid – can now be explored. Penny Siopis’ work has long been concerned with the lived and historical relations between black and white women in South Africa. The discussion focuses on the ambivalent and dependent relationships formed between white middle-class women and black domestic labour during apartheid. Siopis’ work engages with how the appropriation of black women's time, lives, labour and bodies has shaped her ‘own’ history.

J'ai toujours eu envie d'écrire des livres dont il me soit ensuite impossible de parler, qui rendent le regard d'autrui insoutenable. Mais quelle honte pourrait m'apporter l'écriture d'un livre qui soit à la hauteur de ce que j'ai éprouvé dans ma douzième année.

Une collection de quinze essais interdisciplinaires examinant l'histoire, la situation actuelle et l'évolution des alliances lesbiennes avec les féministes américaines. Les contributeurs explorent la signification sociale et esthétique des termes « lesbienne » et « féministe » dans le but de les réformer et de les renforcer.

Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on maturing and living within societies, both historical and contemporary, that not only acknowledge but also incorporate same-gender desires and relations. Examining what it means to organize "sex" in a society that lacks a category for "sex", or to love someone of the same gender when society does not have a "homosexual" or "gay/lesbian" role, Herdt provides provocative new insights in our understanding of gay and lesbians lives. Accurate in both its scientific conceptions and wealth of cultural and historical material, examples range from the ancient Greeks and feudal China and Japan to the developing countries of Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, and Thailand, from a New Guinea society to contemporary U.S. culture, including Native Americans. For all of these peoples, homoerotic relations emerge as part of culture and not separate from history or society. In many of these groups, loving or engaging in sexual relations is found to be the very basis of the local cultural theory of "human nature" and the mythological basis for the cosmos and the creation of society. The mistake of modern Western culture, Gilbert contends, is to continue the legalization of prejudice against lesbians and gays. In this light, the book addresses the issue of "universal" versus particular practices and reveals positive role models that embrace all aspects of human sexuality. Finally, it offers knowledge of the existence of persons who have loved and have been intimate sexually and romantically with the same gender in other lands through divergent cultural practices and social roles. The most important lesson to learn from this cross-cultural and historical study of homosexuality is that there is room for many at the table of humankind.

Girls in male-dominated youth subcultures confront ideologies of gender which remain largely invisible and often tacitly accepted in many women's everyday lives. Punk girls choose to construct their femininity within a highly male-dominated, "masculinist," context; girls are present in such youth subcultures, but the masculine definition of their norms problematizes their participation. Thus, punk girls struggle to accommodate female gender norms within subcultural identities which are deliberately coded as "masculine." Although young women in America encounter the norms of the female gender role on a daily basis, punk girls' negotiations between the norms of femininity and those of punk open these prescriptions to critical examination which they might not otherwise be accorded. In this dissertation, I explore accounts of punk girls' engagements with both mainstream and subcultural gender norms. In constructing this account of girls' lived experiences in the punk subculture, I rely primarily upon the phenomenology, or experiential narrative, of punk girls' everyday lives. I elicited these accounts within the context of conducting participant observation in the punk scenes of four North American cities (Atlanta, Montreal, New Orleans, and San Francisco) from 1993 to 1995, conducting ethnographic interviews with forty punk girls. In the following, I explore various facets of punk girls' engagements with gender norms, including punk girls' narratives of engagement with the subculture; the construction of punk as a discourse of masculinity; punk girls' stylistic, behavioral, and discursive reconstructions of femininity; punk girls' experiences of public harassment and sexual harassment, and their strategic responses to these. I argue that these girls use the punk subculture in order to carry out resistances to varied forms of gender oppression, thereby developing stronger self-concepts in the face of adversity.

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

Cet article présente une partie des résultats de deux recherches socio-anthropologiques réalisées en France auprès d'hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes et des femmes, indépendamment de leur identité socio-sexuelle. Les analyses portent d'abord sur les perceptions différenciées de la sexualité et sur ses conséquences en matière de restitution du sens, et ensuite sur la gestion des comportements préventifs. Ainsi il apparat!, au travers d'une relecture des notions de " multipartenariat ", de " sexe occasionnel " ou de " fidélité ", que le principal lieu de rupture dans la gestion des risques vin est avant tout dépendant de la variable sexe des partenaires sexuels, quand bien même la compréhension de ce mécanisme ne se réduit pas à une opposition basique entre hommes et femmes.

Dans cet article, l'auteure démontre que la circulation et la consommation croissante des images lesbiennes dans l'espace public participent du phénomène complexe d'une culture du visible. Tout en soulignant les inévitables compromis qui découlent d'une telle négociation de la visibilité, elle retrace le potentiel culturel qu'une telle marchandisation de la " différence " représente pour les lesbiennes. L'identité et le désir lesbiens sont donc analysés ici en tant que produits représentationnels aptes à être consommés autant par les hétérosexuel.les que par les lesbiennes. Par une analyse des diverses stratégies de négociation du désir lesbien tirées de deux films populaires tant auprès d'un public hétérosexuel que gai (Gazon maudit et When Night is Falling), la critique confronte la matérialité de l'identité lesbienne au cinéma à la valeur de l'image saphique sur le marché de l'identité.

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."

La Voz de la Mujer, La Voix de la femme en français, est le premier journal anarcha-féministe au monde. Publié en Argentine par un collectif de femmes dont la communiste libertaire Virginia Bolten, il compte neuf numéros, parus du 8 janvier 1896 au 10 mars 1897. (Wikipedia)

In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."

La lesbienne telle qu'on la connaît aujourd'hui est entrée dans le roman français avec La Religieuse de Diderot (pub. 1796), et jusqu'en 1926 elle est créée et recréée presqu'exclusivement par les écrivains hommes qui modèlent leurs personnages sur Margarita de La Fille aux yeux d'or de Balzac et Mademoiselle de Maupin de Gautier, pour en faire des femmes menaçantes pour la virilité collective. A partir de 1930 les expériences littéraires lesbiennes sont prises en charge par des auteures femmes qui en explorent les secrets, les misères et les oppressions d'abord, et ensuite — à partir de l'oeuvre de Monique Wittig et de Jocelyne François — la vie quotidienne dans sa variété. Cet article est un compte rendu d'unprojet de recherche en cours — projet qui étudie un territoire littéraire jusqu'ici totalement ignoré dans l'histoire du roman.