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Un éclairage inédit sur une population urbaine à un moment charnière de son évolution: celle des Montréalais francophones des décennies 1920 et 1930. Une période où la population d'ascendance française devient majoritaire à Montréal

Ce livre propose une articulation originale des champs du travail, du privé, des rapports sociaux et de la famille, et constitue une avancée majeure dans le champ de la sociologie des rapports sociaux. Monique Haicault rejette la stérilité de la binarisation traditionnelle, en tenant compte, concrètement et théoriquement, des processus de différenciation sociale de sexe. Son épistémologie « cubique » analyse la triade corps-temps-espace dans le contexte du quotidien et à travers les activités professionnelles, les activités familiales de socialisation, les déplacements urbains et les relations intergénérationnelles. L’utilisation de l’image vidéo donne vie à cette expérience. L’image contribue à montrer comment par leurs comportements, leurs actions, leurs propos et le sens qu’ils donnent à leur expérience, les acteurs sociaux participent de la construction de la société et de sa reproduction dynamique. L’auteure apporte une nouvelle contribution à la socialisation sexuée et à la théorie des rapports sociaux entre sexes et intra-sexe. Elle débouche sur un questionnement qu’il sera désormais difficile de passer sous silence.

Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and saying, "I am the parent of a gay child." Something to Tell You recounts the stories of families whose lives have been touched by the discovery that a child is lesbian or gay—how it affects and influences people's perceptions of their children and even changes the self-image of parents themselves. Focusing on fifty average families—not people seen in clinics or therapy—the authors found a consistent pattern of change: first negative, then positive. Sometimes the news led parents and siblings to form stronger bonds with the child, with each other, and with other relatives and friends. In many cases, their child's partner and partner's family grew to assume an important role in their own lives. In some cases, parents and siblings discovered new meaning in their lives through speaking out or joining PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and becoming part of the struggle for lesbian and gay rights. The authors found that families committed to staying together are typically able to overcome the powerful obstacles imposed by society. Something to Tell You also shows the lasting and sometimes tragic consequences for families who falter in the process of integration. Unwilling to accept their child's sexuality, some parents sought to blame each other, and all too often their own relationships unraveled as a result. Others who failed to tell close friends sometimes lost those friends through keeping secrets. Parents who neglected to form bonds with their child's partner fostered climates of alienation that persisted for years. A richly diverse collection of family stories, Something to Tell You is a book that will help break down widespread prejudice and put an end to destructive cultural myths. It affirms families' highest aspirations toward active love for their gay children, showing the steps to take toward new levels of support, solidarity, and love.

A revision of a hugely successful book; this is the 'bible' of contemporary black feminist thought and is widely cited and taught as a seminal text. Completely up-to-date with recent events, trends in popular culture, current events, and politics.

Les théologies féministes sont plurielles de par la diversité des expériences qui leur donnent naissance. S'il est vrai que l'expérience du sexisme et de l'androcentrisme traverse les discours féministes, elle n 'en est pas moins contextuelle. La prise en compte de ces expériences des femmes en théologie interroge et commence à modifier la pratique même de la théologie. La théologie mujerista née de la survie des femmes hispano-américaines en est un exemple remarquable.

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.

Une relecture de la sexualité, à la lumière des travaux de Deleuze, Foucault, mais aussi dans la lignée du féminisme matérialiste (Wittig) et des recherches sur le genre (Butler). S'inscrivant dans une quête rétrospective d'une philosophie radicale lesbienne, l'essai se penche notamment sur le godemiché et ses différentes incarnations au sein du système patriarcal

n Carnal Appetites, Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex, and the impact of our modes of consumption on our identities. 'You are what you eat' the saying goes, but is the tenet truer than ever? As the range of food options proliferates in the West, our food choices become inextricably linked with our lives and lifestyles. Probyn also tackles issues that trouble society, asking questions about the nature of appetite, desire, greed and pleasure, and shedding light on subjects including: fast food, vegetarianism, food sex, cannibalism, forced feeding, and fat politics.

Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude portant sur la description du processus d'apprentissage expérientiel d'intervenantes oeuvrant dans des organismes communautaires pour femmes sans-abri. L'analyse des données révèle que les savoirs d'expérience de ces intervenantes se construisent progressivement, à travers un processus de réflexion sur l'action suscité par des situations problématiques qui surgissent de la pratique. L'analyse met également en relief le rôle central du collectif d'intervenantes dans la construction de ces savoirs. Ces résultats permettent de revitaliser le concept d'apprentissage expérientiel : plutôt qu'un processus individuel de production de savoirs, il est possible de l'envisager sous l'angle d'une co-construction de savoirs à laquelle participent des actrices concernées par un même objet.

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field. The editors’ introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy’s contributions to with numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field’s engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers.

This paper examines gender differences in health, based on data from over 14,000 men and women aged 60 and above from 3 years of the British General Household Survey, 1992±1994. There is little difference between the sexes in the reporting of self-assessed health and limiting longstanding illness, but older women are substantially more likely to experience functional impairment in mobility and personal self-care than men of the same age. These ®ndings persist after controlling for the di€erential social position of men and women according to their marital status, social class, income and housing tenure. The results reveal a paradox in health reporting among older people; for a given level of disability, women are less likely to assess their health as being poor than men of the same age after accounting for structural factors. Older women's much higher level of functional impairment co-exists with a lack of gender difference in self-assessed health. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved

Les AA. analysent l'impact du Viagra sur l'evolution des comportements sexuels. Ils distinguent les dysfonctionnements sexuels d'origine organiques et les troubles de l'activite sexuelle lies a des facteurs psychologiques comme le stress. Ils soulignent que le Viagra apparait comme un remede a la defaillance sexuelle. Ils s'efforcent d'evaluer l'impact de la mise sur le marche de ce medicament. Ils mettent en garde contre le risque de renforcement de la norme «erectocentrique», contre le risque d'appauvrissement concomitant du jeu erotique et contre le risque de dependance vis-a-vis du Viagra.

There once was a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not yet been named and defined. "If conditions are right," Susan Brownmiller says in this stunning memoir, "if the anger of enough people has reached the boiling point, the exploding passion can ignite a societal transformation." In Our Time tells the story of that transformation, as only Brownmiller can. A leading feminist activist and the author of Against Our Will, the book that changed the nation's perception of rape, she now brings the Women's Liberation movement and its passionate history vividly to life. Here is the colorful cast of characters on whose shoulders we stand--the feminist icons Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Germaine Greer, and Gloria Steinem, and the lesser known women whose contributions to change were equally profound. And here are the landmark events of the era: the consciousness-raising groups that sprung up in people's living rooms, the mimeographed position papers that first articulated the new thinking, the abortion and rape speak-outs, the daring sit-ins, the underground newspaper collectives, and the inventive lawsuits that all played a role in the most wide-reaching revolution of the twentieth century. Here as well are Brownmiller's reflections on the feminist utopian vision, and her dramatic accounts, rendered with honesty and humor, of the movement's painful internal schisms as it struggled to give voice to the aspirarations of all women. Finally, Brownmiller addresses that most relevant question: What is the legacy of feminism today?

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new series Studies in Language and Gender, advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of language and gender, including Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars. Topics explored include African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities considers the ways in which modernity was constructed, in all its incompleteness, through colonialism. Using a variety of archival resources and equally diverse methodologies, the authors trace modernity's unstable foundations in the slippages and ruptures of colonial gender and sexual politics. As a whole, the essays illustrate that modern colonial regimes are never self-evidently hegemonic, but are always in process - subject to disruption and contest - and never finally accomplished; and are therefore unfinished business.