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This research-creation dissertation focuses on the emergence of electroclash as a dominant form of electronic dance music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Electroclash combines the extended pulsing sections of techno, house and other dance musics with the trashier energy of rock and new wave. The genre signals an attempt to reinvigorate dance music with a sense of sexuality, personality and irony. Electroclash also emphasizes, rather than hides, the European, trashy elements of electronic dance music. This project addresses the following questions: what is distinct about the genre and its related practices, both in and out of the studio? Why do rock and electro come together at this point and in this way? Why is electroclash affectively powerful for musicians, audiences and listeners? And, what does the genre portend in terms of our understandings of the politics of electronic music? The coming together of rock and electro is examined vis-à-vis the ongoing changing sociality of music production/distribution and the changing role of the producer. Numerous women, whether as solo producers or in the context of collaborative groups, significantly contributed to shaping the aesthetics and production practices of electroclash, an anomaly in the history of popular music and electronic music where the role of the producer has typically been associated with men. These changes are discussed in relation to the way key electroclash producers often used a hybrid approach to production involving the integration of new(er) technologies, such as laptops containing various audio production software with older, inexpensive keyboards, microphones, samplers and drum machines to achieve the ironic backbeat laden hybrid electro-rock sound.

From popular culture to academia, there is national panic about the dismal life trajectories of Black males. This "Black male crisis" has contributed to emergent all-Black, all-male schools. Racial identity is commonly used to explain underperformance among Blacks, yet within-group gender disparity signifies the importance of gender relative to race. Minimal research exists on Black males' gender identities, and less on the intersections of gender and race. This longitudinal dissertation used quantitative and qualitative data to examine the development and intersections of racial and gender identity among Black adolescent males transitioning from co-educational grammar schools and entering the ninth grade at an all-Black, all-male high school. Findings are presented in two empirical papers. Paper 1 examined survey data collected from Black males (N = 183) to explain how boys' racial and gender identities were interrelated, changed over time, and influenced their psychological and academic adjustment. Results from the growth curve analysis revealed that boys' racial and gender identities were interrelated with each other and that higher levels of identity attachment were associated with better psychological and academic adjustment. Moreover, the strength of the relationship between gender identity and psychological adjustment increased over time, indicating that gender identity became increasingly important for boys' wellbeing. Paper 2 analyzed interview data with a subsample of Black males (n = 21) to examine how they resisted and accommodated racial and gender stereotypes. Results from the qualitative analysis revealed that boys were aware of the ways that racial and gender stereotypes overlap, but they responded to these stereotypes in different ways. Although some boys accommodated to both racial and gender stereotypes and others resisted these stereotypes, the majority of the boys responded by accommodating to gender stereotypes and resisting racial stereotypes. That is, they tended to perpetuate cultural stereotypes that require males to be the leader, emotionally stoic, and not to be feminine (i.e., gay) while challenging beliefs about the intellectual inferiority and incompetence of Black people. Findings are interpreted within the macro-context of cultural stereotypes and the micro-context of an all-Black male school. Implications for the study of identity, Black males, and single-sex education are discussed.

Les sociétés interprètent diversement la différence sexuelle. Partout, on cultive cette différence et on établit une hiérarchie entre les sexes : le masculin domine le féminin et même l'efface pour figurer à lui seul le genre humain. Contre cet effacement, y compris dans sa forme moderne " universaliste ", Sylviane Agacinski propose une philosophie de la mixité qui rompt avec les modèles masculins et avec cette honte du féminin qui a caractérisé pendant un temps le féminisme. S'écartant de Simone de Beauvoir, l'autrice soutient qu'il n'y a plus de contradiction entre la liberté des femmes et leur fécondité, qui n'est pas seulement un " destin biologique ". La relation entre les hommes et les femmes ne dépend d'aucune vérité éternelle : elle résulte d'une longue histoire dont les débats sur la parité révèlent un nouvel enjeu.

Adolescence is a time to explore and develop romantic relationships. Glamorized sexual messages and images bombard youth as they struggle to develop their sexual identity. The darker side of romance that includes teen pregnancy, STDs, and emotional pain is rarely portrayed. Because adolescent females shoulder the burden of unwanted sexual outcomes, an exploration of their experiences, both positive and negative, is the focus of this study. Current literature contains demographic information about who is at risk for unwanted pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), but little is known from the adolescent females’ perspective, about their sexual experiences and even less about normal romantic ideation which drives sexual behavior. This qualitative study utilized ethnographic interviews to explore the experiences of 28 females ages 19-29 from four cultural backgrounds including Euro-American, African-American, American Indian, and Latina. The influence of families, peers, school, and sex education programs was explored for positive and negative experiences. Advice about romantic development to younger adolescent females was sought to gain insight into their development and how to better assist adolescent females in developing healthy romantic relationships. A multi-staged data analysis of the interviews was used to find similarities and differences among the subjects and cross culturally. Discussion of romantic behavior occurred in less than half of the nuclear families. Extended family such as aunts, uncles, and grandparents were named as significant role models by most participants and were frequently described as sources for support and occasionally available for discussion of romantic relationships. Peers were perceived to be sexually active and most behaved in a similar manner. Euro- and African-Americans placed more importance on peer groups. Reproduction was most frequently learned in the school system, rather than from family and peers. The programs were reported as woefully lacking in comprehensiveness. This study calls for policymakers to fund sex education programs for adolescents with potential participation from parents, extended family, and peers. The curriculum should address age-appropriate strategies for discussing romantic and sexual behavior. Additionally, guidelines for monitoring activities and use of new technologies that pose higher risks in early adolescence are most important. Health educators and healthcare providers can utilize these strategies when working with adolescents, families, and peers to improve their romantic relationships and decrease teen pregnancies and STDs.

Ce livre est le récit d'une expérience politique. Celui de l'administration quotidienne, pendant 236 jours, de testostérone synthétique. Une expérience vécue comme un acte de résistance face à l'assignation à la naissance d'une identité sociale et sexuelle considérée immuable. A travers le récit de sa transformation corporelle, Paul B. Preciado dessine la mutation politique contemporaine des technologies de pouvoir. Entre chronique autobiographique et essai philosophique, Testo Junkie est pour la génération queer, trans et non-binaire ce que L'Anti-OEdipe de Deleuze et Guattari était pour la génération 68. Un livre incontournable, une lecture urgente, qui bouleverse nos certitudes et invite à transgresser les normes de genre et de sexualité.

La philosophe Judith Butler est aujourd’hui reconnue comme une figure marquante du féminisme postmoderne. L’originalité de sa pensée a fortement influencé le champ des études féministes, gaies et lesbiennes et queers. Dans ses théorisations, Butler procède à la déconstruction du naturalisme et du fondationnalisme sous-tendant les catégories de sexe et de genre. Cette prise de position constructiviste l’amène à réfléchir et à militer pour la reconnaissance sociale et politique des différents genres et des multiples sexualités. Bien que Butler soit devenue une référence incontournable à l’échelle internationale, ses travaux ont fait l’objet de peu d’analyses au Québec. Cet article veut favoriser une meilleure compréhension des postulats philosophiques et épistémologiques de son oeuvre. Pour ce faire, une analyse des concepts clés de la pensée de Butler, notamment celui de performativité du genre, est d’abord effectuée. Puis les principales critiques à l’égard de ses thèses sont examinées et, finalement, les réponses de Butler à ces critiques sont présentées.

Cet ouvrage renouvelle de manière fondamentale la pratique éthique, en affirmant avec vigueur que la réflexion morale ne saurait être considérée en dehors du contexte social et politique dans lequel elle est formulée. Si la philosophie morale a par nature tendance à idéaliser le sujet moral en lui conférant une autonomie trop vite considérée comme allant de soi, il importe de contrer cette tendance en prenant comme point de départ l'expérience indépassable du caractère relationnel de chaque vie. Aucune vie ne saurait se dire à soi, parvenant à construire le récit adéquat de son déroulement, ni revenir sur son émergence dans le monde. Ce qui se soustrait à elle, ce sont non seulement les conditions de sa naissance et de son développement, mais aussi les formes sociales qui la rendent lisible. La reconnaissance de soi par soi est incomplète, lacunaire. Située dans le récit des autres, elle est hantée par les formes de justification qui en découlent et achèvent de rendre toute procédure de reconnaissance impossible. Le rapport à l'autre devient constitutif de l'impossible rapport à soi. C'est dans ce contexte de dépossession qu'il devient urgent, selon Judith Butler, de procéder à une enquête sur les conditions de possibilité d'une relation morale à soi et aux autres qui ne fasse pas violence à un tel contexte mais le prenne au contraire en considération. Car l'éthique est violente dès lors qu'elle s'arroge le droit de dépasser les contextes singuliers dans lesquels se trouvent placées les vies pour formuler des prescriptions universelles.

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions. https://www.saranahmed.com/

Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.

Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives