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Le contexte dans lequel se déroule l’action politique des féministes noires latino-américaines et des Caraïbes est marqué par l’histoire de la colonisation et de l’esclavage. À travers les figures des Ialodês , symboles d’autorité féminine dans certaines cultures africaines, amenées au Brésil notamment au travers des pratiques religieuses, l’autrice montre certains éléments de la pratique politique des femmes afro-descendantes qui précèdent le féminisme théorique, créé en Occident. Elle critique le féminisme latino-américain et des Caraïbes, influencé par celui d’Europe et des États-Unis, notamment pour son caractère excluant, du fait de sa vision classiste et raciste, tout en reprenant certain de ses apports. Werneck critique par ailleurs la politique d’identité pratiquée par une grande partie du mouvement de femmes afro-descendantes, qu’elle considère insuffisant pour permettre la mobilisation politique, pourtant nécessaire face à la mondialisation économique et les nouveaux contextes historiques. Elle présente ainsi de nouveaux défis au mouvement social anti-raciste et anti-sexiste.

Black studies emerged from the tumultuous social and civil rights movements of the 1960s and empowered African Americans to look at themselves in new ways and pass on a dignified version of Black history. However, it also enriched traditional disciplines in profound and significant ways. Proponents of Black and ethnic studies confronted the false notion that scholarly investigations were objective and unbiased explorations of the range of human knowledge, history, creativity, artistry, and scientific discovery. As they protested against hegemonic notions like universal psychology and re-evaluated canonical texts in literature, a new model of academic inquiry evolved: one committed to serving a range of populations, that critiqued traditional politics, culture, and social affairs, and worked with activist energy for the transformation of the existing social order. With an all-star cast of contributors, The Black Studies Reader takes on the history and future of this multi-faceted academic field. Topics include Black feminism, cultural politics, Black activism, lesbian and gay issues, African American literature and film, education, and religion. This authoritative collection takes a critical look at the current state of Black studies and speculates on where it may go from here.

A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture. The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology.

The influence of culture and ethnic background on women’s experience of domestic violence has been explored in research only recently. Here the authors review research about the impact of culture and minority status in the United States on women’s experience of domestic violence, considering family structure,immigration, acculturation, oppression, and community response. The authors encourage researchers and service providers to acknowledge the effects on women of sociopolitical dynamics, including racism, and to identify specific aspects of culture that are relevant to intimate partner abuse.

Some members of stigmatized groups, such as Asian women, may be more likely to experience negative self-evaluations after exposure to a mainstream beauty standard than members of other stigmatized groups, such as Black women. In this study, 54 Asian women, 52 Black women, and 64 White women, were exposed to mainstream standards of beauty and compared themselves to these idealized images. It was hypothesized that although Black women would find these comparisons irrelevant, Asian women would see these targets as relevant for their comparisons, reflecting their striving for mainstream beauty standards. The results indicated that Black women did not find mainstream standards as relevant to themselves, and reported positive self-evaluations generally and about their bodies in particular. Asian women, on the other hand, responded differently than Black women and were more likely to endorse mainstream beauty standards in a similar fashion to White women. As predicted, Asian women also experienced greater dissatisfaction with their bodies than did Black women.

First- and second-generation youth of color are vulnerable to racialized images of gender and sexuality as reflected in and perpetuated by dominant forms of popular and consumer cultures. These popular images inform the process of Americanization, including racialized sexualization, for first- and second-generation Americans. This paper examines the way first- and second-generation Asian American girls and young women interpret and reinterpret popular representations of their positions in the United States. Data from two qualitative studies on Asian American young women will be presented.

Globalization has a taste for queer cultures. Whether in advertising, film, performance art, the internet, or in the political discourses of human rights in emerging democracies, queerness sells and the transnational circulation of peoples, identities and social movements that we call "globalization" can be liberating to the extent that it incorporates queer lives and cultures. From this perspective, globalization is seen as allowing the emergence of queer identities and cultures on a global scale. The essays in Queer Globalizations bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine from multiple perspectives the narratives that have sought to define globalization. In examining the tales that have been spun about globalization, these scholars have tried not only to assess the validity of the claims made for globalization, they have also attempted to identify the tactics and rhetorical strategies through which these claims and through which global circulation are constructed and operate.

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.

"This book is not about feminism. Rather, feminism is the basis of the discussion, an example of how understanding oppression must consider a number of barriers. Euro-Canadian feminists rarely address the circumstances that are unique to First Nations' women, instead working with the assumption that all women are a part of a similar struggle. Ouellette attempts to confront these barriers. Throughout interviews with a number of women, she highlights the following four questions. To what extent do Aboriginal women understand experience and articulate their oppression? To what extent do colonized women perceive racism as the source of their oppression? To what extent do Aboriginal women view male domination within their own Aboriginal societies as the source of the oppression? How do Aboriginal women articulate racism and gender oppression?The author argues that there will always be a dichotomy between European and Aboriginal thought. This book makes an important contribution toward a greater understanding of Aboriginal thought and an Aboriginal perspective on society. The Fourth World theory is an integrate part of the "Circle of Life" philosophy of Aboriginal people. In keeping with oral traditions, these teachings are passed on at gatherings and in private conversations. They compromise a distinctly Aboriginal worldview."

Explorations in Contemporary Feminist The Battle Against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities is a work that bridges issues of oppression across diverse communities within the contemporary feminist movement. Fictional writings by authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Rose Tremain, and others are addressed in regard to their content of social messages. The major focus of this book is the need for personal-redefinition by members of marginalized communities seeking a ground of self-determination and respect, as expressed by various authors. The connections between authors' perspectives are rasied and a critical gaze is directed at the claim that personal choice equates with freedom.

Comme caractéristique du développement capitaliste, la migration économique a toujours entraîné le travail sexuel. À l’heure de la mondialisation, cela signifie pour beaucoup de femmes, qui émigrent du village à la grande ville dans leur propre pays ou du pays natal à l’étranger, un choix imposé par les circonstances. Cet article examine surtout la décision d’émigrer, les moyens empruntés et la situation à l’étranger de celles - la grande majorité, d’ailleurs -- qui n’ont pas été victimes d’un trafic, mais qui ont exercé ce choix imposé. Le rôle dans l’émigration des travailleuses sexuelles et des clients « émigrés » en tant que touristes sexuels fait partie de la discussion, ainsi que d’autres caractéristiques économiques et culturelles.Summary As a feature of capitalist development, economic migration has historically entailed sex work as one of its components. In the age of globalization, this means a forced choice for many women, as they move from the village to the city in their own countries and across international borders. The present article focuses on the decision making process, the means of migration, and the experience in the urban site, national or international, of those -- the vast majority -- who have not been "trafficked", but have made this forced choice their life strategy. The impact on sex worker migration of customer "migration" in the form of sex tourism is discussed, along with the other economic and cultural factors.

Feminism and Race rassemble un large éventail d'écrits sur la «race», le racisme et le féminisme qui ont été publiés au cours des deux dernières décennies. Il vise à fournir aux lecteurs un aperçu de l'histoire de ces débats ainsi qu'à suggérer des orientations futures pour l'érudition et la pratique féministes dans ce domaine.

Les sociétés contemporaines deviennent de plus en plus des sociétés multiculturelles dans lesquelles les groupes minoritaires ethniques ou nationaux réclament une reconnaissance publique et les moyens de préserver leur identité culturelle. Une revendication qui n'est pas sans susciter des conflits qui menacent parfois l'unité territoriale des États. Pour Will Kymlicka, la réponse à cet enjeu devenu incontournable constitue aujourd'hui l'un des plus grands défis pour la démocratie. Son propos, dans ce livre devenu un classique de la théorie politique, est de défendre une nouvelle conception du statut et des droits des minorités culturelles.

Table de matières: Pour une participation équitable des femmes des Premières nations à la gestion des affaires publiques, Judith F. Sayers et Kelly A. MacDonald. Les femmes des Premières nations et la gouvernance : Étude sur les coutumes et les nouvelles pratiques chez les femmes de la Première nation de Lake Babine, Jo-Anne Fiske, Melonie Newell et Evelyn George. La gouvernance des Premières nations, la Loi sur les Indiens et les droits à l’égalité des femmes, Wendy Cornet.

Gay Wachman provides a critical new reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after the First World War. She contrasts works by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, Rose Allatini, and Evadne Price with more politically and narratively conservative novels by Radclyffe Hall and Clemence Dane. These writers, she states, formed part of an alternative modernist tradition that functioned both within and against the repressive ideology of the British Empire, using fantasy as a means of reshaping and critiquing a world fragmented by war. Wachman places at the center of this tradition Sylvia Townsend Warner's achievement in undermining the inhibitions that faced women writing about forbidden love. She discusses Warner's use of crosswriting to transpose the otherwise unrepresentable lives of invisible lesbians into narratives about gay men, destabilizing the borders of race, class, and gender and challenging the codes of expression on which imperialist patriarchy and capitalism depended.

En examinant les categories exprimées par des étudiantes blanches et Mexicaines-Américaines d'origine modeste, l'autrice décrit des femmes sans classe selon un double sens : d'une part, leur difficulté quant à la mobilité sociale, et, d'autre part, leur absence d'identité de classe, qu'elle attribue au fait que la théorie sociale et l'analyse de classe, qui restent marquées blanches et masculines, continuent d'ignorer la position des femmes en tant que sujets de classes. La race et le genre continuent d'être considérés comme des épiphénomènes de la formation de classe alors qu'ils en sont des éléments constitutifs

Dans les années 70, la guerre d'Algérie est encore dans tous les esprits. Ce récit autobiographique décrit la difficulté de vivre en Algérie avec une mère française, et de vivre en France avec un père algérien