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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
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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Ce volume présente un débat entre quatre des plus grandes théoriciennes féministes des États-Unis. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell et Nancy Fraser discutent de certaines des questions clés auxquelles la théorie féministe est confrontée. Chacune articule sa propre position dans un essai initial, puis répond aux autres dans un essai de suivi, rendant possible une conversation entre ces penseuses féministes influentes. Commencé comme un symposium sur la question du féminisme et du postmodernisme, le volume s'est transformé en une discussion sur des questions plus larges telles que l'utilité du postmodernisme en tant que concept théorique; le rôle de la philosophie dans la critique sociale ; comment le récit historique est le mieux conceptualisé ; le statut du sujet du féminisme ; et les effets politiques des différentes formulations de toutes ces questions.
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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.
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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.
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Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts. How does the sexual identity that anthropologists have in their "home" society affect the kind of sexuality they are allowed to express in other cultures? How is the anthropologists' sexuality perceived by the people with whom he or she does research? How common is sexual violence and intimidation in the field and why is its existence virtually unmentioned in anthropology? These are but a few of the questions to be confronted, exploring from differing perspectives the depth of the influence this tabooed topic has on the entire practice and production of anthropology. A long-overdue text for all students and lecturers of anthropology, many post-fieldwork readers will find a resonance of issues they have previously faced (or tried to avoid) and those who are still to undertake fieldwork will find articles that refer to other kinds of personal and professional experience as well as providing invaluable preparations for coping in the field.other kinds of personal and professional experience as well as providing invaluable preparations for coping in the field.other kinds of personal and professional experience as well as providing invaluable preparations for coping in the field.other kinds of personal and professional experience as well as providing invaluable preparations for coping in the field.