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Cette anthologie propose les textes essentiels de Donna Haraway : Cyborg manifesto, Situated knowledge, Teddy bear patriarchy, Ecce homo, Modest witness, Race.

L’autrice part du concept d’« orientalisme » tel qu’il a été élaboré par Edward Saïd pour montrer que ce processus « d’altérisation » mené par l’Occident doit être mis en parallèle avec un processus symétrique, mené par les pays arabo-musulmans et qu’elle nomme « Occidentalisme ». En effet, chacun de ces grands ensembles politiques se sert du principe du respect des femmes pour plaider sa supériorité culturelle par rapport à l’autre. Dans les deux configurations, ce principe vise par ailleurs d’autres finalités : celle de convaincre « ses propres » femmes des avantages que leur octroie le système d’oppression dans lequel elles se trouvent insérées. Dans le cas de l’Occident, le crédit accordé à sa « position de supériorité » est encore renforcé par l’idéologie du progrès par le développement, un discours qui présuppose que la situation des femmes ne peut que s’améliorer avec l’avancement techno-économique d’une société.

« Romancière avant tout, Ying Chen a tout de même rédigé, au fil des ans, des textes dans lesquels elle tente de réfléchir simplement, modestement, en adoptant le mode de l’interrogation, du souvenir et de la lettre familière plutôt que celui de l’analyse ou de la théorie, à ce que sont pour elle - et peut-être pour ses lecteurs - la portée et la signification de son art, le sens de son itinéraire personnel de femme, d’exilée et d’écrivain, ou la place de la littérature dans le monde éclaté d’aujourd’hui. Il en résulte une série d’essais brefs, écrits dans une prose aussi sobre que directe, qui constituent d’une certaine manière l’accompagnement ou l’écho méditatif de cette parole qui se fait entendre dans ses romans et à travers la voix des personnages auxquels elle a donné vie. »

La question qui m’a été adressée -comment se manifeste ton engagement féministe dans tes recherches et dans tes actions? -, m’interpelle sur trois fronts puisque je suis féministe, que je milite depuis plusieurs années et que je fais partie de la classe privilégiée des universitaires. Étudiante au doctorat en sociologie, je travaille actuellement sur la Marche mondiale des femmes en tant que processus de mobilisation collective sexué (D. Kergoat, 1992). Processus dont je suis partie prenante et au sein duquel j’ai eu l’occasion d’effectuer une immersion particulière au cours de l’année 2000, en participant à titre d’étudiante – stagiaire à l’équipe d’organisation et de coordination au niveau international. Et à toutes ces choses, correspond un même préalable dans mon parcours : l’expérience de l’oppression patriarcale.

Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the biggest names in the field--Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose--to not only showcase the most influential essays on the topic but to also highlight subsequent interrogations and developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions.

The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term “social provisioning” to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of caring and unpaid labor as fundamental economic activities; use of well-being as a measure of economic success; analysis of economic, political, and social processes and power relations; inclusion of ethical goals and values as an intrinsic part of the analysis; and interrogation of differences by class, race-ethnicity, and other factors. The paper then provides brief illustrations of the use of this methodology in analyses of US welfare reform, gender and development, and feminist ecological economics.

No single item of clothing has had greater influence on Western images of Middle Eastern and North African women than the veil. The fascination of Western writers, artists, and photographers with the veil reflects the voyeuristic nature of our interest in what is strange and "other." Veil, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts. Providing a context for the commissioned essays are a number of classical historical texts crossing religions, cultures, genders, and ages--from Greek myths to articles published in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Some of the contemporary artists and scholars write autobiographically about the meaning of the veil in their lives. Others take a more political approach, discussing, for example, how the events of September 11 changed the use and reception of veil imagery throughout the world. Still others take a historical approach, examining how nineteenth-century technological developments in travel and photography led to photographic depictions of both the veiled and unveiled body in relation to landscape. A number of essays look at the art historical precedents for the current interest in artwork addressing the veil, while others examine how codes of modesty and gender segregation have affected the making and viewing of films in postrevolutionary Iran. The essays are by Jananne Al-Ani, David A. Bailey, Alison Donnell, Ghazel, Salah Hassan, Reina Lewis, Hamid Naficy, Zineb Sedira, and Gilane Tawadros. The artists represented include Faisal Abdu'Allah, Kourosh Adim, Ghada Amer, Jananne Al-Ani, Farah Bajull, Samta Benyahia, Gaëtan de Clérambault, Marc Garanger, Shadafarin Ghadirian, Group AES, Emily Jacir, Ramesh Kalkur, Shirin Neshat, Harold Offeh, Gillo Pontecorvo, Zineb Sedira, Mitra Tabrizian, and Elin Strand.

The aim of the article is to further assess and develop feminist standpoint theory by introducing the notion of the ‘situated imagination’ as constituting an important part of this theory as well as that of ‘situated knowledge’. The article argues that the faculty of the imagination constructs as well as transforms, challenges and supersedes both existing knowledge and social reality. However, like knowledge, it is crucial to theorize the imagination as situated, that is, as shaped and conditioned (although not determined) by social positioning.

To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut. Yet two million girls experience this each year. Most Westerners, upon learning of the practice of female circumcision, have responded with outrage; those committed to improving the status of women have gone beyond outrage to action by creating various programs for "eradicating" the practice. But few understand the real life complexities families face in deciding whether to follow the traditional practices or to take the risk of change. InThe Female Circumcision Controversy, Ellen Gruenbaum points out that Western outrage and Western efforts to stop genital mutilation often provoke a strong backlash from people in the countries where the practice is common. She looks at the validity of Western arguments against the practice. In doing so, she explores both outsider and insider perspectives on female circumcision, concentrating particularly on the complex attitudes of the individuals and groups who practice it and on indigenous efforts to end it. Gruenbaum finds that the criticisms of outsiders are frequently simplistic and fail to appreciate the diversity of cultural contexts, the complex meanings, and the conflicting responses to change. Drawing on over five years of fieldwork in Sudan, where the most severe forms of genital surgery are common, Gruenbaum shows that the practices of female circumcision are deeply embedded in Sudanese cultural traditions-in religious, moral, and aesthetic values, and in ideas about class, ethnicity, and gender. Her research illuminates both the resistance to and the acceptance of change. She shows that change is occurring as the result of economic and social developments, the influences of Islamic activists, the work of Sudanese health educators, and the efforts of educated African women. That does not mean that there is no role for outsiders, Gruenbaum asserts, and she offers suggestions for those who wish to help facilitate change. By presenting specific cultural contexts and human experiences with a deep knowledge of the tremendous variation of the practice and meaning of female circumcision, Gruenbaum provides an insightful analysis of the process of changing this complex, highly debated practice.

L’excision et l’infibulation sont parties intégrantes des traditions de nombreuses sociétés africaines issues majoritairement de la région subsaharienne. En contexte canadien, aucune information statistique n’est présentement disponible sur la prédominance de cette pratique, malgré le fait que de nombreux intervenants soupçonnent que plusieurs immigrant(e)s en provenance de ces pays sont susceptibles de faire subir ces pratiques à leurs fillettes. Cette étude qualitative explore les valeurs et les croyances des immigrant(e)s par rapport à ces pratiques traditionnelles, tout en cernant les défis de leur processus d’intégration au Canada et leur recours aux services de santé.

Un livre stimulant et incisif, Provoking Feminisms est une collection d'essais, de commentaires et de réponses sur certaines des questions les plus controversées de la théorie féministe d'aujourd'hui. Des conversations spécifiques sont centrées sur des sujets de débat tels que la théorie du point de vue féministe ; le genre comme catégorie analytique ; problèmes de "différence" sexuelle ; et la vie privée et les représentations du personnel. Chaque échange parle puissamment des enjeux actuels au cœur de l'érudition féministe et comprend des discussions à partir d'un échantillon de disciplines : théorie politique/sociale, philosophie, sociologie, études culturelles et théorie critique. Intense et rigoureux, Provoking Feminisms est un ouvrage crucial pour quiconque s'intéresse à l'état de l'érudition féministe contemporaine.

Ann Oakley came to widespread attention as part of the new school of British feminists to emerge in the 1960s, and has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative feminist thinkers and social scientists writing today. In Experiments in Knowing, a major new work, Oakley integrates her personal and professional thinking to examine the historical development of methodology in the social and natural sciences, demonstrating how both fields have been subject to a process of "gendering." Oakley not only reconciles the long-standing opposition between the quantitative and the qualitative methods but shows that the experimental and intuitive approaches must be used in tandem to provide a full understanding of any subject of scientific inquiry. Written in accessible language, Experiments in Knowing addresses themes of common interest across such diverse fields as social policy, education, health, and women's studies. Certain to generate considerable debate, it is both a fascinating history of the practice of social science from a feminist perspective, as well as an argument for a new way of thinking about our ways of knowing.

La recherche féministe repose-t-elle sur une éthique de la recherche qui lui est propre, Est-elle mieux servi par les méthodes qualitatives que quantitatives ? Comment arrive-t-elle à concilier engagement politique et effort d'élaboration d'un discours vrai sur le monde ? Cet ouvrage présente quelques éléments essentiels de la réflexion féministe actuelle sur la méthodologie de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales.

A partir de sa participation à la course destination monde, la videaste-reporter cherche des façons d'entamer le dialogue avec celles dont elle parle dans ses reportages,elle explore comment les enjeux et les contraintes sous-tendent sa relation avec son sujet.

In Generations and Geographies, the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. Generations points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance; Geographies calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, diaspora and genocide.Generations and Geographies is framed by theoretical debates in cultural analysis by Griselda Pollock, Mieke Bal, Elisabeth Bronfen and Irit Rogoff, and two historical analyses of representations of the female nude by Rosemary Betterton and Nanette Salomon. Essays on international contemporary art discuss artistic practice by women working in both western and non-western contexts, focusing on themes of the mother, the body, the land and history/memory. The artists discussed include the French performance artist Orlan, the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta and Jenny Saville from Britain, the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuna, Shimada Yoshiko from Japan, the Korean artist Re-Hyun Park and the Korean/Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger from Israel and the American artist Cindy Sherman. British/Zanzibari artist Lubaina Himid provides specially commissioned artists' pages on the theme of history, location and displacement.

Il s'agit de la première collection de théoriciennes féministes influentes à se concentrer sur le cœur de l'épistémologie traditionnelle, traitant de questions telles que la nature des connaissances et l'objectivité dans une perspective de genre.

An examination of the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. The authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases, and raise questions about the discipline's objective nature.

A contribution to the feminist discussion on moral theory, exploring the debate between moral impartiality and the partiality that characterizes personal relationships, the ethic of care and its relation to justice in a gender asymmetrical society, and the role of intimate friendship in an era of the dissolution of both extended and nuclear families.