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Capsule vidéo qui explique le racisme aveugle à la race, premier partie.

Capsule vidéo qui explique le racisme aveugle à la race, deuxième partie.

Les stades dits de Tanner sont une série de photographies permettant d’évaluer le développement pubertaire des filles et des garçons. Utilisés dans la clinique et la recherche médicales contemporaines, leur histoire remonte aux années 1950. Cet article propose de revenir sur le contexte de production de cet artefact et d’interroger la façon dont il est partie prenante de la construction socio-historique de la binarité du sexe dit biologique. La puberté comme objet scientifique et médical est en effet un lieu crucial de production, de reproduction et de reconfiguration du genre.

Entretien avec la professeure Rachel Chagnon, Département des sciences juridiques et membre de l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes (IREF) de l'UQAM. Vidéo produite dans le cadre du projet "Témoigner de son agression à caractère sexuel sur les médias sociaux : quels enjeux pour les victimes?", réunissant les professeures Christine Thoër et Chantal Aurousseau (Département de communication sociale et publique, UQAM) et membres de d'IREF, le Regroupement québécois des CALACS et le collectif Je suis indestructible.

VideoScribe animation that introduces the work of Cynthia Enloe and in particular her book "Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics" in relationship to power, politics and International Relations. Scripted and read by Professor Laura Shepherd.

Avec Rachel Chagnon, membre de l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes et professeure au Département des sciences juridiques.

Avec Geneviève Pagé, membre de l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes et professeure au Département de science politique.

Tout en soulignant qu’il s’avère illusoire de vouloir séparer les situations personnelles des conditions historiques et politiques de leur émergence, cet article propose une réflexion critique de la notion de libre choix, que l’auteure inscrit dans un réseau de facteurs macrosociaux tels que les tensions internationales ou encore la violence et la pauvreté structurelles. La notion de « libre choix » possède une charge idéologique qui se reflète dans la distinction souvent établie entre les femmes occidentales libérées et la femme musulmane dépourvue de libre choix et victime passive de l’oppression patriarcale. Le libre choix tend aujourd’hui à (re)devenir un critère discriminatoire permettant de distinguer les sociétés les « plus civilisées » (choix et liberté pour les « Occidentales ») de celles qui le sont moins (contrainte et servitude pour les « Orientales »). La violation du libre choix des femmes peut alors contribuer à légitimer l’intervention des industries humanitaire et militaire pour « sauver les musulmanes », comme cela a été le cas dans la guerre d’Afghanistan, à la suite des événements tragiques du 11 septembre 2001. Qui a le pouvoir de réduire « l’Autre », et particulièrement les musulmanes, à des sujets assujettis incapables d’émerger comme sujets agissants ? Des musulmanes souffrent d’un libre choix limité, mais ceci est-il réductible à l’islam ? Le libre choix des Occidentales relève-t-il d’un idéal fantasmé ? Faudrait-il plutôt investiguer la notion de libre choix dans sa complexité intrinsèque reliée aux relations de pouvoir ? Réduire les vies poignantes et tellement complexes des femmes musulmanes à une question de choix plus ou moins libre et éclairé est d’une totale insatisfaction pour l’anthropologue. Afin de mieux saisir cette complexité, l’auteure puise dans son travail ethnographique s’échelonnant sur une vingtaine d’années en milieu rural égyptien pour souligner l’importance du travail (micro)ethnographique qui permet de dépasser les généralités et les simplicités galvaudées par certains médias et romans à sensation (« pulp nonfiction ») qui font et défont l’opinion publique. L’auteure compare ces généralités essentialisantes avec des exemples de vies socialement complexes et ethnographiquement riches de villageoises égyptiennes.

Using a post-structural lens, I make arguments against homogenising people’s conditions and circumstances. In particular, I acknowledge that the post-1994 reform agenda intended to streamline the previously fragmented and segregated higher education landscape under the apartheid regime. Black women, who are the main target of this article suffered triple marginalisation ‒ race, social class and sexism. The aim of the article is to show the tensions that exist within the White Paper: A Programme for the Transformation of Higher Education (DoE 1997). The said tensions have stifled the attainment of gender equity and equality; effectively widening the gender fissures in post-1994 South African higher education. I argue that we should not take for granted phrases such as “equal opportunities” and “equal access” in policies. Instead, we should seek their meaning and achievement inter alia in earnest for the targeted group.Therefore, I postulate that gender and gendering is complex and very fragmented. For this reason, formulating transformation interventions on the premise of equality for all does not necessarily guarantee gender equality or gender equity. With this in mind, a “one-size fits all” approach to redressing gender equality is implausible and does not suffice in addressing salient gender injustices. I propose a multifaceted approach, which encompasses a realistic and holistic outlookon the divergent needs of black women in particular and women in general as a possible solution to the current challenges.

Les figures trans sont partout. Dans les clips, la mode, les séries, les faits divers… Pourtant, cette visibilité ne s’accompagne pas toujours d’une plus grande acceptation. Tour à tour caricaturé, psychiatrisé, dans le meilleur des cas ignoré, dans le pire rejeté, le fait transidentitaire pose problème. A l’image de l’homosexualité, les peurs et les tabous demeurent. C’est sur la base de ce constat que ce livre propose un bilan des savoirs sur « les » questions trans, en insistant sur les différents fronts, de l’espace médical à l’espace social, en passant par les arènes juridiques et scientifiques. Laissant de côté la question du « pourquoi » (« pourquoi est-on trans ? » ou « pourquoi le devient-on ? »), l’auteur s’intéresse à la question du « comment » et des logiques sociales à l’œuvre dans les controverses transidentitaires.

Women have been active as performers of instrumental music since the Medieval period, and yet their contributions are often overlooked. This dissertation examines the history of women’s orchestras outside the United States, and explores their development, as well as reasons for existing. Several factors regarding their development are taken into consideration, including time period, country, and culture in which the ensemble is present. The birth of the women’s orchestra is traced from the ospedali of the 18th century Venice to today. All-female ensembles from England, Canada, Cuba, and Afghanistan are profiled, as well as the Women’s Orchestra in Auschwitz. Two modern-day women’s orchestras – the Allegra Chamber Orchestra in Vancouver, British Columbia, and my recital orchestra at the University of Maryland – were surveyed in an attempt to learn more about the culture of women’s orchestras. This paper seeks to answer the questions “What is the culture of women's orchestras today, and should they continue to exist?”

Originaire de Guadeloupe, Jade Almeida intervient tous les jeudis sur la web radio Neoquebec et participe à divers projets mettant les femmes noires au centre de la narration. Elle se positionne contre la négrophobie et la misogynie noire et tente de naviguer l’institution académique dans une optique de décolonisation.

Cette émission n°72 est consacrée à la santé mentale à travers différents sujets, différentes sources, différents territoires ; Trinidad, Canada, Sénégal, France… On y parle exil, enfermement, complicité, famille, isolement, etc. Bonne écoute !

As we write this chapter about reinterpreting women’s roles in peacebuilding, Colombia is at a turning point. On November 24, 2016, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the national government signed a historical agreement that ended the 60-year-long armed conflict. How this peace and the social reconciliation that it requires will be implemented remain to be seen. At the peace negotiations roundtable, throughout the early years of the conversations, women were underrepresented, and even now gender inequality within public participation is far from being resolved. Although women have been acting equally with their male counterparts as rotating negotiators in these peace negotiations, the High Commissioner for Peace (Alto Comisionado para la Paz) affirms that only 25 percent of the plenipotentiary negotiators are women, and that while the Gender Subcommittee is an interesting accomplishment, it is still insufficient. Additionally, Colombia is facing the challenge of FARC-EP’s reintegration to civil society: between 33 percent and 40 percent of their troops are women and most of the DDR processes do not show a serious focus on gender in their programs.

«In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling exhibition Walking With Our Sisters and creates a model for antiviolence work from an Indigenous perspective. The contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with "tradition," and problematic notions involved in "helping." Through stories of resilience, resistance, and activism, the editors give voice to powerful personal testimony and allow for the creation of knowledge.»-- Provided by publisher.

Featured artists include: Beyonce, Louise Bourgeois, Andrea Bowers, Judy Chicago, Vanessa German, Jenny Holzer, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Kruger, AnaMendieta, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Shirin Neshat, Pussy Riot.Since its inception, the women's movement has harnessed the power of the image to transmit its message. From the posters of the Suffrage Atelier, to the photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design, and publlic protest, this stunning volume showcases the vibrancy and daring of the feministaesthetic over the last 150 years.

« Almost 20 years after Māori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s call to decolonize research (Smith, 1999), significant progress has been made into drafting ethics principles to guide research with Indigenous people (e.g., CIHR et al., 2014). However, transforming principles into actual practices is easier said than done. It is increasingly recognizedthat “knowing the key guiding principles for research with Indigenous peoples is not always enough and [principles need to be]translated into day-to-day research practices”(Morton Ninomiya and Pollock, 2017, p. 29). This themed issue presents studies on various topics conducted in different geographical and cultural settings and suggesting concrete ways to decolonize research. The call for papers was issued following the 3rd Seminar on the ethics of research with Aboriginal people held at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue in late 2014. Two previous editions of the seminar (in 2009 and 2011) had invitedparticipants2to share experiences of good and bad research practices, summarized in Asselin and Basile (2012). The 3rd seminar took a step further in focusing on concrete ways to decolonize research.In what follows, we discuss research decolonization and summarize the key messages from the keynote speakers of the 3rd seminar, some of which have contributed papers to this themed issue. Additional contributions widened the geographical scope considered (Canada, Mexico, Peru) in addition to providingmore examples of concrete ways to decolonize research. » [Extrait original p. 643-644|

Women's leadership significantly contributes to building high-performing organizations. However, challenges with balancing work and family responsibilities are inhibiting them from exerting their fullest potential towards this end. This study aims at investigating the challenges women leaders in Addis Ababa face in balancing the demands of their organizations with that of their families. A sample of eight women leaders of positions from large and middle scale organizations were taken using a purposive sampling technique. In-depth interviews were used to gather information for the study, and a phenomenological qualitative study was applied to analyze the data. The study identified some organizational, societal, and individual factors that challenge women leaders in balancing their work and family responsibilities. Work overload, cultural and social norms, family responsibilities, and upbringing related behaviors of the interviewees themselves were among the major challenges in maintaining their work-family balance. This study contributes insights into work-family balance theory and practice, by presenting women leaders' voices about their work-life challenges as expressed in their own words, from their own testimonies. It indicates that much needs to be done on the part of organizations, society, family, and women themselves for women leaders to have the desired level of work-family balance.