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This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities―as well as the transformative possibilities―between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.

The agenda of contemporary western feminism focuses on equal participation in work and education, reproductive rights, and sexual freedom. But what does feminism mean to the women of rural India who work someone else's fields, young Thai girls in the sex industry in Bangkok, or Filipino maids working for wealthy women in Hong Kong? In this 1998 book, Chilla Bulbeck presents a bold challenge to the hegemony of white, western feminism in this incisive and wide-ranging exploration of the lived experiences of 'women of colour'. She examines debates on human rights, family relationships, sexuality, and notions of the individual and community to show how their meanings and significance in different parts of the world contest the issues which preoccupy contemporary Anglophone feminists. She then turns the focus back on Anglo culture to illustrate how the theories and politics of western feminism are viewed by non-western women.

‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the US military, Butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Yet she also argues that speech is ‘excitable’ and fluid, because its effects often are beyond the control of the speaker, shaped by fantasy, context and power structures. In a novel and courageous move, she urges caution concerning the use of legislation to restrict and censor speech, especially in cases where injurious language is taken up by aesthetic practices to diminish and oppose the injury, such as in rap and popular music. Although speech can insult and demean, it is also a form of recognition and may be used to talk back; injurious speech can reinforce power structures, but it can also repeat power in ways that separate language from its injurious power. Skillfully showing how language’s oppositional power resides in its insubordinate and dynamic nature and its capacity to appropriate and defuse words that usually wound, Butler also seeks to account for why some clearly hateful speech is taken to be iconic of free speech, while other forms are more easily submitted to censorship. In light of current debates between advocates of freedom of speech and ‘no platform’ and cancel culture, the message of Excitable Speech remains more relevant now than ever.

Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of race and ethnicity have been strategically foregrounded in the art of any engaged artist, to the exclusion of many other concerns, the demise of apartheid offers the possibility of exploring other dimensions of lived experience in South Africa. For feminists, this is potentially a very positive moment when questions of gender – so long subordinated to the structural issue of ‘race’ under apartheid – can now be explored. Penny Siopis’ work has long been concerned with the lived and historical relations between black and white women in South Africa. The discussion focuses on the ambivalent and dependent relationships formed between white middle-class women and black domestic labour during apartheid. Siopis’ work engages with how the appropriation of black women's time, lives, labour and bodies has shaped her ‘own’ history.

J'ai toujours eu envie d'écrire des livres dont il me soit ensuite impossible de parler, qui rendent le regard d'autrui insoutenable. Mais quelle honte pourrait m'apporter l'écriture d'un livre qui soit à la hauteur de ce que j'ai éprouvé dans ma douzième année.

Cet article analyse le rapport entre la mémoire sociale des femmes et l'histoire féministe qui a vu le jour au cours des trente dernières années. L'hypothèse défendue ici est que mémoire et histoire s'alimentent réciproquement et qu'elles sont toutes deux le fruit d'un construit social. Toutes deux opèrent un tri dans le passé et l'ordonnent selon une perspective particulière. Toutes deux s'inscrivent dans des rapports de pouvoir, rapports qu'elles reflètent en partie, mais qu'elles contribuent également à interroger et à remettre en cause. C'est ainsi que la mémoire des femmes et l'histoire féministe se sont avérées des éléments importants de conscientisation et de changement social.

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.

This collection addresses the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Cet article présente une partie des résultats de deux recherches socio-anthropologiques réalisées en France auprès d'hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes et des femmes, indépendamment de leur identité socio-sexuelle. Les analyses portent d'abord sur les perceptions différenciées de la sexualité et sur ses conséquences en matière de restitution du sens, et ensuite sur la gestion des comportements préventifs. Ainsi il apparat!, au travers d'une relecture des notions de " multipartenariat ", de " sexe occasionnel " ou de " fidélité ", que le principal lieu de rupture dans la gestion des risques vin est avant tout dépendant de la variable sexe des partenaires sexuels, quand bien même la compréhension de ce mécanisme ne se réduit pas à une opposition basique entre hommes et femmes.

Cet article expose de façon schématique comment certains aspects de la pensée de Foucault dépassent les deux pôles qui ont défini la plupart des débats dans le champ des études gaies et lesbiennes à propos de la sexualité

"La légende du défunt quartier montréalais dit du "Red Light" vaut bien celle des Soho et Pigalle de ce monde. Prospères au début du siècle, les salles de jeux enfumées et les chambres sordides de nos bas-fonds deviennent dans les années trente les derniers refuges des damnés de la crise. La guerre venue, les entrepreneurs en plaisirs défendus font des affaires d'or, en attendant que l'armée s'en mêle. La guerre finie, le Red Light renaît en force. C'est alors que Pacifique Plante et Jean Drapeau entrent en scène et procèdent à l'épuration radicale de nos moeurs. Le rideau tombe sur notre quartier "réservé". Aujourd'hui, la "Main" n'est plus qu'un coin de rue, à l'intersection de Sainte-Catherine et de Saint-Laurent. Ni ses habitués ni les passants n'ont idée de son spectaculaire passé." -- Quatrième de couverture

Comment les circonstances spécifiques dans lesquelles nous écrivons affectent-elles ce que nous écrivons ? Comment ce que nous écrivons affecte-t-il ce que nous devenons ? Comment pouvons-nous maintenir l'intégrité professionnelle et personnelle dans l'université d'aujourd'hui ? Dans une série d'écrits traditionnels et expérimentaux, aboutissement de dix années de travaux en cours, Laurel Richardson enregistre un parcours intellectuel, déplaçant les frontières et créant de nouvelles façons de lire et d'écrire. Appliquant l'imaginaire sociologique au processus d'écriture, elle relie sa vie à son travail. Profondément engageant, écrit de manière émouvante avec grâce, élégance et clarté, le livre stimule les lecteurs à situer leur propre écriture dans des contextes personnels, sociaux et politiques.

"Taking on those who would limit sexual freedom, New Sexual Agendas challenges the notion that there are fixed sexual behaviors for men and women. This engaging collection draws on a number of disciplines including women's studies, literature, gender studies, cultural studies, history, politics, education, sociology, and psychology."

La Voz de la Mujer, La Voix de la femme en français, est le premier journal anarcha-féministe au monde. Publié en Argentine par un collectif de femmes dont la communiste libertaire Virginia Bolten, il compte neuf numéros, parus du 8 janvier 1896 au 10 mars 1897. (Wikipedia)

In Fantasies of Femininity, Jane Ussher focuses on unraveling the contradictory visions of feminine sexuality: the fact that representations of the definition of woman seethe with sexuality yet for centuries women have been condemned for exploring their own sexual desires. In her quest for the sources of feminine representation, Ussher interviewed dozens of women - as well as some men - and combed popular media - from Seventeen to Cosmopolitan and Dallas to Donahue - to identify what shapes women's symbolic images of sex and femininity. Ussher argues that women have effectively resisted and subverted these archetypal fantasies of femininity, and in the process of so doing, reframed the very boundaries of sex. In this way, she exposes as myth much of what we think we know about "woman" and about "sex."