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Les chercheuses en études féministes aux Etats-Unis ont publié de nombreux articles sur le féminisme français; pourtant, peu de féministes françaises s'y reconnaissent ou y reconnaissent leur mouvement. Cet article porte sur la disjonction qui existe entre la version américaine du féminisme français et le mouvement dont la pratique et la théorie ont eu un impact sur la politique, la culture, et la société françaises des vingt dernières années. Cet article part du principe que la version américaine n'est pas simplement une interprétation erronée des faits. Bien que je décrive très brièvement le modèle que les militantes et les critiques féministes ont élaboré, ma contribution porte plus sur l'organisation de la connaissance aux Etats-Unis et l'impact de la recherche féministe américaine sur le mouvement français. Dans le modèle américain du féminisme français, les théoriciennes Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, et Luce Irigaray, ainsi que le groupe Psychanalyse et Politique sont pris comme modèles. Le militantisme s'efface devant la théorie, les théories matérialistes devant le post-structuralisme, la dimension sociale et historique devant le discours littéraire et philosophique. Pourquoi en est-il ainsi? Quels a priori politiques se cachent derrière la version américaine du féminisme français? Cet article a pour objectif d'avancer quelques réponses et de soulever plus encore de questions. Ce faisant, j'espère mettre à jour la diversité des engagements politiques conflictuels qui façonnent la recherche intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis et montrer les conséquences variées et pas toujours voulues de celle-ci. Much has been written in U.S. feminist scholarship about "French feminism", but few French feminists recognize themselves or their movement in these studies. This article looks at this disjunctive between the American version of "French feminism" and the movement whose practice and theory had an impact on French politics, culture, and society over the past two decades. The premise of the article is that the disjunctive is not simply a matter of "getting the story wrong". Although I describe (very briefly) the movement that feminist activists and scholars have constructed for themselves, the interest of this paper is more so on the construction of knowledge in the U.S. and the impact of U.S. feminist scholarship on the French movement. In the American construction of "French feminism", theorists Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray, along with the group Psychanalyse et politique, are the significant exemplars. Theory is privileged over activism, poststructuralism over materialist theories, literary and philosophical discourse over the social and historical. Why? What political assumptions are embedded in the U.S. construction of "French feminism'"? This paper intends to offer some answers (and raise many more). In so doing, I hope to make clear the variety of conflicting political agendas that inform U.S. intellectual work and the variety of consequences, not always intended, that this work has had.

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.

Bringing together some of the classic sociological statements and the new sociology of homosexual desire, this book points to new synthetic approaches to queer studies. It aims to productively engage the pioneering work of queer theorists.

Feminism was not born in 1968. Yet the work of three centuries of feminist thinkers has been dismissed, distorted or forgotten. Even the names of many of them remain unfamiliar, and few have so much as a mention in history books. Feminist Theorists demonstrates once and for all that we can no longer be content with received ideas about 'progress', which may explain the world for men, but which fail to make sense of the historical experience of women. It shows too that contemporary women have a rich intellectual tradition on which to draw for stimulus, inspiration and enjoyment.

''Susan Wendell has lived with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) since 1985. In The Rejected Body, she connects her own experience of illness to feminist theory and the literature of disability. The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and the criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine.''

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Inside the Visible presents a gendered reading of more than thirty women artists of vastly different background and experience. The work of important yet previously "invisible" figures is highlighted alongside the work of established artists to create a retheorized interpretation of the art of this century. Structured in terms of recurrent cycles over time, Inside the Visible focuses on three periods (the 1930s and 1940s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the 1990s) that anticipated a wave of political repression, nationalism, and xenophopia, often stimulating artistic production that redefined practice. Illustrated essays document each artist in the collection. In addition, four general essays trace the connections among the artists. These take up such issues as why artistic recognition eluded certain artists and why their work is only just becoming visible today. They also address overlapping themes such as gender and sexuality; the intersection of racial, class, ethnic, sexual, and regional identities; and the nature of the relationship between work and viewer.

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works. The Reader's 90 extracts are designed to introduce the major issues and debates in the field of post-colonial literary studies. This field itself, however, has become so varied that no collection of readings could encompass every voice which is now giving itself the name "post-colonial." The editors, in order to avoid a volume which is simply a critical canon, have selected works representing arguments with which they do not necessarily agree, but rather which above all stimulate discussion, thought and further exploration. Post-colonial "theory" has occurred in all societies into which the imperial force of Europe has intruded, though not always in the official form of theoretical text. Like the description of any other field the term has come to mean many things, but this volume hinges on one incontestable phenomenon: the "historical fact"of colonialism, and the palpable consequences to which this phenomenon gave rise. The topic involves talk about experience of various kinds: migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and reaction to the European influence, and about the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. In compiling this reader, the editors have sought to stimulate people to ask: "How might a genuinely post-colonial literary enterprise proceed?" The fourteen sections include: Issues and Debates; Universality and Difference; Textual Representation and Resistance; Postmodernism and Post-Colonialism; Nationalism; Hybridity; Ethnicity and Indigenity; Feminism and Post-Colonialism; Language; The Body and Performance; History; Place; Education; and Production and Consumption. Contributors include many of the leading post-colonial theorists and critics--such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabba, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha--in addition to a number of the discourse's newer voices. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader will prove an authoritative compilation, representing an invaluable contribution to the study of post-colonial theory and criticism.

Les contributrices abordent les problèmes du mouvement international des femmes, tels que la résolution des conflits; la violence; zones de libre-échange ; l'environnement; culture et identité nationale; santé; les média; droits humains; et l'emploi, en mettant l'accent sur la situation des femmes dans toutes les régions du monde. Destiné aux étudiants en études féministes, en sciences politiques et en études du développement

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.

This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. The contributors ring different interests and approaches to bear on theoretical and empirical material from a wide range of sources. The book is divided into four sections: cartographies/identities; sexualised spaces: global/local; sexualised spaces: local/global; sites of resistance. Each section is separately introduced. Beyond the bibliography, an annotated guide to further reading is also provided to help the reader map their own way through the literature.

Cet essai, écrit à distance, sur commande de l'Office of War Information, par une femme qui n'était jamais allée au Japon et en ignorait la langue, pour servir de manuel aux forces d'occupation américaines, réussit la gageure de demeurer, de l'avis général des Japonais, l'un des grands livres que l'on ait écrit sur eux. Des articles et des ouvrages ont, après lui, été publiés qui réfutent, complètent, approfondissent, réapprécient les interprétations de Ruth Benedict. Ces débats lui ont conféré la place d'une référence classique." Ce livre traite des habitudes qui paraissent naturelles et que nul ne songerait à remettre en cause au Japon. Il traite des situations où tout Japonais peut compter sur la courtoisie et de celles où il se sent honteux, des circonstances où il éprouve de l'embarras, de ce qu'il exige de lui-même." On y parle des règles de hiérarchie, de bienséance, de l'éducation des enfants, de morale sexuelle, de politique économique ...

A travers le regard d'une femme africaine sur ses sœurs occidentales, nos découvrons avec horreur la condition des femmes d'Afrique qui n'a guère changé en dépit des progrès. Qu'il s'agisse du non-accès à l'éducation dont sont encore privées beaucoup de petites filles, de l'excision (mutilation du plaisir chez la femme) ou de al dépendance économique, sociale et culturelle à l'homme, Calixthe l'Africaine dresse un noir tableau des combats qu'il reste à mener. L'autre part du discours à trait à "l'endormissement" de la femme occidentale ; ou plutôt, selon Calixthe, la femme a été endormie par l'homme qui depuis plusieurs années s'est transformé en agneau pour mieux renaître en loup. Calixthe Beyala lance un signal d'alarme à ses "sœurs" ne baissez pas les bras, tout reste à faire ; énormément chez nous en Afrique, beaucoup chez vous en Occident. Ecrit dans le style vif et alerte qui al caractérise, l'ouvrage de Calixthe ne recule pas devant les mots pour se faire entendre des femmes, et certainement, les réveiller. Calixthe Beyala est camerounaise. Ecrivain, elle vit et travaille en France. Mère de deux enfants, elle a la charge de nombreux enfants au Cameroun. Elle a publié plusieurs romans très remarqués dont "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée", premier roman bouleversant en hommage à sa sœur morte à l'âge de 23 ans, symbole de la lutte que doit sans cesse mener la femme africaine, "Le petit prince de Belleville", "Maman a un amant" et "cet automne "Assèze l'Africaine". Le style et le caractère puissant de son œuvre font d'elle une des toutes premières romancières africaines.

Voici la première histoire de l'amour entre les femmes qui, sur cinq siècles, de la Renaissance à nos jours, tienne compte à la fois du regard extérieur des hommes et de l'approche des lesbiennes elles-mêmes. Pour la première fois, aussi, une analyse à long terme est proposée qui dégage une évolution des moeurs, des mentalités et de la place des femmes dans la société. Jusqu'à présent, en effet, l'histoire des femmes occultait l'amour entre femmes, alors que les lesbiennes ont joué un rôle prépondérant dans les mouvements progressistes politiques et artistiques. Unique en son genre par son érudition, son approche pluridisciplinaire, ses mises en perspective originales et la période considérée, cet essai s'impose déjà comme un ouvrage de référence.

Premier chapitre du Passage du siècle (les grands bilans que le Centre Georges Pompidou proposera en 1996 et 1997), cette exposition renoue avec des expériences décisives comme par exemple "Eros", organisée en 1959 par Marcel Duchamp et André Breton. A travers le titre "Féminin - Masculin, le sexe de l'art" s'exprime un double enjeu : celui de réhabiliter le terme dévalué d'une opposition inscrite dans la tradition des couples hiérarchiques de la pensée occidentale (forme/matière, vérité/mensonge, être/paraître, profondeur/surface, etc.) ; celui de montrer qu'au delà d'un simple sujet-motif artistique, le sexe est partie prenante des processus de l'art lui-même. L'ambition de cette exposition est de montrer, en dehors de toute approche chronologique, comment les productions artistiques du XXe siècle n'ont eu de cesse de venir brouiller les fatalités biologiques, anatomiques et culturelles traditionnellement liées au sexe. Aborder l'art dans la perspective de la différence sexuelle, ce n'est pas mécaniquement opposer un art "masculin" à un art "féminin", mais tenter de donner à voir comment les oeuvres se trouvent traversées par cette question, au-delà du sexe - du genre - des artistes qui les produisent. Féminin - Masculin, le sexe de l'art montrera aussi la coexistence dans ce siècle de deux généalogies artistiques concernant le sexe. L'une, à partir de Picasso, s'inscrit dans la tradition classique de la différence des sexes, conçue comme une opposition dialectique et organique du masculin et du féminin. L'autre, à partir de Marcel Duchamp, inaugure un nouveau type de relations, selon une logique asymétrique, faisant circuler les intensités masculines et féminines sur un mode proliférant qui opère une déterritorialisation des entités anatomiques, identificatoires et formelles. Les artistes de la jeune génération (tant américaine qu'européenne) semblent très sensibles à cette manière de déstabiliser les polarités traditionnelles du masculin et du féminin, mettant en oeuvre de nouvelles configurations éthiques et formelles qui se situent au-delà de la différence sexuelle, et en cela se distinguant en radicalement des positions identitaires des années 70.

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.

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities. Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard. Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.

Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research. Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women's appropriation of "men's language," the literary representation of lesbian discourse, the silencing of women on the Internet, cultural mediation and Spanish use at New Mexican weddings and the uses of silence in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.

An unconventional argument for the preservation of pornography asserts that pornography can serve to benefit the feminist movement and promote sexual freedom for women, and explores the historical relationship between women and pornography.

"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.