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Au Canada, les cercles de sentence et les cercles de guérison constituent les deux principaux modèles de justice réparatrice en milieu autochtone. Ces initiatives se sont développées surtout à partir des années 1990. L'article propose d'abord d'identifier le contexte précurseur à leur émergence puis de décrire et de comparer leurs principes et leur fonctionnement respectifs. L'auteure est amenée à conclure que les cercles de guérison s'inscrivent davantage dans une démarche d'autonomisation (empowerment) alors que les cercles de sentence risquent de se situer dans une démarche de légitimation de l'intervention du système de justice étatique.

« Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process. Partners contribute their expertise to enhance understanding of a given phenomenon and to integrate the knowledge gained with action to benefit the community involved. This review provides a synthesis of key principles of community-based research, examines its place within the context of different scientific paradigms, discusses rationales for its use, and explores major challenges and facilitating factors and their implications for conducting effective community-based research aimed at improving the public's health » [Résumé original]

Catalogue d'une exposition tenue du 11 février au 11 avril 1999 à la Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ont., du 18 juin au 15 août 1999 à la Thames Art Gallery, Chatam, Ont., du 11 janvier au 13 février 2000 à la Galerie d'art Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia, Montréal et du 16 septembre au 19 novembre 2000 à la Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.-É.

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.

A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work," work in the underground economy, work in the home, and shift work. With an expanded focus on women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and regions, America's Working Women grounds us in the battles women have fought and the ones they are in the process of winning.

Fille d'une esclave violée par un marin anglais à bord d'un vaisseau négrier, Tituba, née à la Barbade, est initiée aux pouvoirs surnaturels par Man Yaya, guérisseuse et faiseuse de sorts. Son mariage avec John Indien l'entraîne à Boston puis au village de Salem, au service du révérend Samuel Parris. Elle est emprisonnée à la suite du procès des sorcières de Salem en 1692.

"This book contains the reflections of one Mohawk woman and her struggles to find a good place to be in Canadian society. The essays, written in enjoyable and accessible language, document the struggles against oppression that Aboriginal people face, as well as the success and change that have come to Aboriginal communities. It speaks to both the mind and the heart."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Tous originaux de ce volume, ces essais évocateurs rédigés par des chercheureuses tels que Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth Grosz et Judith Roof examinent un domaine encore intact de la critique littéraire et culturelle et de la théorie du genre, une postmodernité spécifiquement lesbienne. Les essais retracent, d’une part, comment certaines théories et productions culturelles lesbiennes mettent en avant une politique de différence et de marginalité et critiquent ainsi l’hégémonie patriarcale et hétérosexuelle. D’un autre côté, certains essais soulignent comment une esthétique postmoderne, avec sa valorisation de la différence, de la pluralité sexuelle et du flou des genres, contribue à la production culturelle lesbienne. Parmi les sujets abordés figurent les définitions changeantes des termes lesbien et postmoderne ; le potentiel et danger de ce nouveau territoire conceptuel dans la théorie, la représentation littéraire et visuelle et la culture populaire ; la lesbienne dans le cinéma hollywoodien ; les actrices Jodie Foster et Sandra Bernhard ; et des œuvres de Jeanette Winterson, Michelle Cliff et Gloria Anzaldua. Tout au long, les contributeurices abordent les questions et enjeux interdépendants de classe, de race, d’ethnicité, de postcolonialisme et de marchandisation.

Rassemblant quarante-deux essais révolutionnaires, dont beaucoup sont déjà des classiques, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader fournit une introduction indispensable à l'état contemporain des études lesbiennes/gay, illustrant largement l'étendue, la portée, la diversité, l'attrait et puissance du travail actuellement réalisé dans le domaine. Présentant des essais d'éminents chercheurs tels que Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin et Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explore une multitude d'expériences sexuelles, ethniques, raciales et socio-économiques. . S'étendant sur des disciplines telles que l'histoire, la littérature, la théorie critique, les études culturelles, les études afro-américaines, les études ethniques, la sociologie, l'anthropologie, la psychologie, les classiques et la philosophie, cette anthologie retrace l'inscription des significations sexuelles dans toutes les formes d'expression culturelle. Représentant le meilleur et le plus important travail en langue anglaise dans le domaine, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader aborde des sujets tels que les rôles butch-fem, la construction culturelle du genre, le séparatisme lesbien, la théorie féministe, le sida, l'éducation sexuelle sans risque, le colonialisme, le S /M, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, les livres pour enfants, le nationalisme noir, les films populaires, Susan Sontag, le placard, l'homophobie, Freud, Sappho, les médias, les hijrasde l'Inde, Robert Mapplethorpe, et la politique de représentation. Il contient également un essai bibliographique détaillé qui fournira aux lecteurs un guide inestimable pour des lectures complémentaires. Contributeurs :Henry Abelove, Tomas Almaguer, Ana Maria Alonso, Michele Barale, Judith Butler, Sue-Ellen Case, Danae Clark, Douglas sertissage, Teresa de Lauretis, John D'Emilio, Jonathan Dollimore, Lee Edelman, Marilyn Frye, Charlotte Furth, Marjorie Garber , Stuart Hall, David Halperin, Phillip Brian Harper, Gloria T. Hull, Maria Teresa Koreck, Audre Lorde, Biddy Martin, Deborah E. McDowell, Kobena Mercer, Richard Meyer, DA Miller, Serena Nanda, Esther Newton, Cindy Patton, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, Joan W. Scott, Daniel L. Selden, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Barbara Smith, Catharine R. Stimpson, Sasha Torres, Martha Vicinus, Simon Watney, Harriet Whitehead, John J. Winkler, Monique Wittig et Yvonne Yarbro -Bejarano

The interest in understanding and analyzing the situation of native women within the penal process is recent and seems to be limited by the inordinate attention paid by researchers to the overrepresentation of native women. This article is an account of the findings and analyses made to date in this recent sector of research. It presents an inventory of the principal data concerning the confrontation of native women with the penal process. It proposes a synthesis of the principal analyses of the problems of native women with the system of justice by presenting a critical analysis of the socio-structural model of LaPrairie.

In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride and power through the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the end of the century, these essays uncover hidden worlds of the Southern family, worlds of love and duty--and of incest, miscegenation, and insanity. Featuring an introduction by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and a foreword by Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady, this work presents an outstanding array of historians: Eugene Genovese, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Carol Bleser, Drew Faust, James Roark, Michael Johnson, Brenda Stevenson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jacqueline Jones, Peter Bardaglio, and more. They probe the many facets of Southern domestic life, from the impact of the Civil War on a prominent Southern marriage to the struggles of postwar sharecropper families. One author turns the pages of nineteenth century cookbooks, exploring what they tell us about home life, housekeeping, and entertaining without slaves after the Civil War. Other essays portray the relationship between a Victorian father and his devoted son, as well as the private writings of a long-suffering Southern wife. In Joy and in Sorrow offers a fascinating look into the tangled reality of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. With this collection of essays, editor Carol Bleser provides a powerful new way of understanding this most self-consciously distinct region. In Joy and in Sorrow will appeal to everyone interested in marriage and the family, the problems of gender and slavery, as well as in the history of the South, old and new.

An entertaining and refreshing anthology that includes writing about the vibration of lesbian love, cultural identity, sexual fantasy, overcoming alcohol abuse, a teenage coming out, lesbian history, imaginative lesbian antics for lesbian survival and much, much more

Woman, Native, Other is located at the junction of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in publishing the boundaries of these disciplines further ... In this first full-length study, Trinh Minh-ha examines post-colonial processes of displacement -- cultural hybridization and decentered realities, fragmented selves and multiple identities, marginal voices and languages of rupture. Working at the intersection of several fields -- women's studies, anthropology, critical cultural studies, literary criticism, and feminist theory, she juxtaposes numerous prevailing contemporary discourses in a form that questions the (male-is-norm) literary and theoretical establishment

Recent trends in feminist research indicate a growing interest in the impact of Native women on westward expansion and imperialism. The author suggests that while early European contacts affected the status of women negatively, the views of Native women were seldom recorded during these early contact periods. Recent studies have examined the status and changing roles of Native women from the viewpoints of contemporary Native women. The diversity of their opinions continues to be a part of the contemporary debate on the resilience and resourcefulness of Native women in the past.

Résumé L'irruption du discours des minoritaires en sociologie fait éclater le discours des majoritaires en provoquant la remise en question de leurs explications à tendance naturaliste, culturaliste et psychologisante. Affichant le caractère partiel et partial de leurs visions, les femmes et les "ethniques" favorisent l'éclosion de synthèses provisoires, susceptibles de rendre compte des formes multiples de l'oppression

Responding to the need for a comprehensive source of information regarding the separation of American Indian children from their families, this book presents essays which: examine the Indian child-welfare crisis in contemporary, legal, and historical perspectives; document the human cost of the crisis to Indian parents, children, and communities; and report on innovative programs designed and implemented by the Indian tribes themselves. Specifically, this book includes the following sections and essay titles: (1) Contemporary Overviews ("The Destruction of American Indian Families" and "The Role of the Federal Government: A Congressional View"); (2) Historical Perspectives ("The Effects of Boarding Schools on Indian Family Life: 1928" and "'Kid Catching' on the Navajo Reservation: 1920"); (3) The Human Cost ("'The Drunken Indian': Myths and Realities"; "The Wasted Strengths of Indian Families", "The Human Cost of Removing Indian Children from Their Families", "Child-Welfare Services to Indian People in the Albuquerque Area", "Indian Child Welfare in Oregon", "The Ravage of Indian Families in Crisis", "The Question of Best Interest", and "The Placement of American Indian Children--The Need for Change"); (4) A Legal Perspective ("Parent and Child Relationships in Law and in Navajo Custom"); (5) Tribal Actions ("Indian Children and Tribal Group Homes: New Interpretations of the Whipper Man" and "Tribal Resolutions"). (JC)