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Réflexions philosophiques, historiques, juridiques et entretiens pour tenter de cerner la notion de parité, la différence des sexes SOMMAIRE I -- Altérité et exclusion La différence des sexes, une différence historique -- Le jeu aporétique des deux sexes -- Soeurs et frères -- Les amis de nos amis -- Inscrire les droits des femmes, expliciter les droits de l'homme II -- Généalogie des représentations Raison de l'espèce, raison de l'esprit -- Le génie et la muse -- Le chant des sirènes -- A propos d'un monstre moderne -- La misogynie de Strindberg entre politique et métaphysique -- Droit de cuissage et devoir de l'historien III -- Stratégies d'émancipation Le choix du neutre chez deux femmes de pensée, Hannah Arendt et Simone Weil -- Le "privilège" de Simone de Beauvoir -- Les femmes et le féminisme -- Sur l'incompatibilité supposée de l'amour et du féminisme -- Entre égalité et liberté -- La souveraineté limitée des femmes IV -- Pratiques théoriques L'habeas corpus des femmes, une double révolution -- Des conditions de l'égalité économique -- Domesticité, emploi de services et démocratie -- La paire et le neutre -- L'Europe, un laboratoire politique pour une question politique En guise de conlusion : La controverse des sexes (texte rédigé à l'occasion d'une intervention dans le cadre de "L'Université de tous les savoirs" du 12 mai 2000)

Les sociétés contemporaines deviennent de plus en plus des sociétés multiculturelles dans lesquelles les groupes minoritaires ethniques ou nationaux réclament une reconnaissance publique et les moyens de préserver leur identité culturelle. Une revendication qui n'est pas sans susciter des conflits qui menacent parfois l'unité territoriale des États. Pour Will Kymlicka, la réponse à cet enjeu devenu incontournable constitue aujourd'hui l'un des plus grands défis pour la démocratie. Son propos, dans ce livre devenu un classique de la théorie politique, est de défendre une nouvelle conception du statut et des droits des minorités culturelles.

"Aucun amateur de cuisine épicée ne se verra privé de liberté ou victime d'ostracisme pour avoir satisfait ses papilles gustatives. En revanche, on peut être jeté en prison pour trop aimer les chaussures en cuir. De même, l'homosexualité, le sida, la pornographie, le transsexualisme, et aujourd'hui la pédophilie, donnent-ils lieu à ce que Gayle Rubin appelle une " panique sexuelle ". Chaque panique désigne une minorité sexuelle, généralement inoffensive, comme population-cible. Au terme du processus, celle-ci se trouve décimée, et la société tout entière, juridiquement et socialement, réorganisée. Gayle Rubin a jeté les bases d'un champ autonome d'études sur le sexe où désir, jouissance et diversité érotique, pourraient trouver leur raison théorique et politique. Les trois textes publiés ici s'inscrivent dans une filiation politique (le féminisme, la nouvelle gauche, les luttes antiracistes, les luttes pour les droits civiques) et théorique (les sexologues, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Foucault, Derrida). Les paradigmes ne valent rien sans l'enquête de terrain, et rien non plus s'ils ne s'actualisent en choix de stratégie et de tactique politiques. L'ensemble s'éclaire du partiel, le partiel de l'ensemble. Nous sommes loin ici du communautarisme béat qu'on prête parfois en France aux intellectuels américains. Qu'on lise les critiques acerbes de Judith Butler sur les replis identitaires : les lesbiennes n'ont rien d'autre en commun que leur expérience du sexisme et de l'homophobie. Ou ses réserves sur le coming out : " La sexualité reste-t-elle sexualité quand elle est soumise à un critère de transparence et de révélation? Une quelconque sexualité serait-elle possible sans cette opacité qui a pour nom inconscient? " Gayle Rubin et Judith Butler soulignent constamment la nécessité de ne pas troquer une violence contre une autre, une démonologie religieuse contre une démonologie laïque, laissant ainsi sa chance à l'érotologie moderne. (Éditeur).

Aucun amateur de cuisine épicée ne se verra privé de liberté ou victime d'ostracisme pour avoir satisfait ses papilles gustatives. En revanche, on peut être jeté en prison pour trop aimer les chaussures en cuir. De même, l'homosexualité, le sida, la pornographie, le transsexualisme, et aujourd'hui la pédophilie, donnent-ils lieu à ce que Gayle Rubin appelle une " panique sexuelle ". Chaque panique désigne une minorité sexuelle, généralement inoffensive, comme population-cible. Au terme du processus, celle-ci se trouve décimée, et la société tout entière, juridiquement et socialement, réorganisée. Gayle Rubin a jeté les bases d'un champ autonome d'études sur le sexe où désir, jouissance et diversité érotique, pourraient trouver leur raison théorique et politique. Les trois textes publiés ici s'inscrivent dans une filiation politique (le féminisme, la nouvelle gauche, les luttes antiracistes, les luttes pour les droits civiques) et théorique (les sexologues, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Foucault, Derrida). Les paradigmes ne valent rien sans l'enquête de terrain, et rien non plus s'ils ne s'actualisent en choix de stratégie et de tactique politiques. L'ensemble s'éclaire du partiel, le partiel de l'ensemble. Nous sommes loin ici du communautarisme béat qu'on prête parfois en France aux intellectuels américains. Qu'on lise les critiques acerbes de Judith Butler sur les replis identitaires : les lesbiennes n'ont rien d'autre en commun que leur expérience du sexisme et de l'homophobie. Ou ses réserves sur le coming out : " La sexualité reste-t-elle sexualité quand elle est soumise à un critère de transparence et de révélation? Une quelconque sexualité serait-elle possible sans cette opacité qui a pour nom inconscient? " Gayle Rubin et Judith Butler soulignent constamment la nécessité de ne pas troquer une violence contre une autre, une démonologie religieuse contre une démonologie laïque, laissant ainsi sa chance à l'érotologie moderne.

"Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructed as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism. A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'". -- Site de l'éditeur.

Cette anthologie critique propose une sélection de grands textes théoriques sur le statut des femmes. Le projet est né d'un étonnement: la place accordée à la différence des sexes est un point "aveugle" de l'enseignement de la philosophie comme de l'histoire des idées en général. Aussi nous paraît-il urgent de rendre "visibles" des textes susceptibles de nourrir une réflexion sur la différence des sexes. À l'aube du XXIe siècle, en effet, les débats qui ressurgissent sont précurseurs des transformations qui marqueront le statut des femmes et donc, aussi,celui des hommes. (4e de couverture).

Au XVIIe siècle, quatre philosophes, à quelques décennies d'intervalle, formulent en des styles très différents la thèse selon laquelle l'égalité entre les hommes et les femmes est une évidence, une vérité indiscutable. Marie de Gournay, Anna Maria Van Schurman, François Poullain de la Barre et Gabrielle Suchon, estiment que si les interdictions et les discriminations frappant les femmes perdurent, c'est que la querelle entre les défenseurs et les pourfendeurs du " Beau Sexe " est biaisée : les présupposés de la différence sexuelle rendent la question de l'égalité ou de l'inégalité des sexes indécidable.

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

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.

Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism—and certain minority group rights in particular—make them more likely to continue and to spread to liberal democracies? Are there fundamental conflicts between our commitment to gender equity and our increasing desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions? In this book, the eminent feminist Susan Moller Okin and fifteen of the world’s leading thinkers about feminism and multiculturalism explore these unsettling questions in a provocative, passionate, and illuminating debate. Okin opens by arguing that some group rights can, in fact, endanger women. She points, for example, to the French government’s giving thousands of male immigrants special permission to bring multiple wives into the country, despite French laws against polygamy and the wives’ own bitter opposition to the practice. Okin argues that if we agree that women should not be disadvantaged because of their sex, we should not accept group rights that permit oppressive practices on the grounds that they are fundamental to minority cultures whose existence may otherwise be threatened. In reply, some respondents reject Okin’s position outright, contending that her views are rooted in a moral universalism that is blind to cultural difference. Others quarrel with Okin’s focus on gender, or argue that we should be careful about which group rights we permit, but not reject the category of group rights altogether. Okin concludes with a rebuttal, clarifying, adjusting, and extending her original position. These incisive and accessible essays—expanded from their original publication in Boston Review and including four new contributions—are indispensable reading for anyone interested in one of the most contentious social and political issues today.

This essay serves as both a response and embellishment of Marilyn Frye's now classic essay " Oppression." It is meant to pick up where this essay left off and to make connections between oppression, as Frye defines it, and the privileges that result from institutional structures. This essay tries to clarify one meaning of privilege that is lost in philosophical discussions of injustice. I develop a distinction between unearned privileges and earned advantages. Clarifying the meaning of privilege as unearned structural advantage makes visible the role white privilege plays in maintaining complex systems of domination such as racism, sexism, heterosexism and classism. Using a critical reading of both Frye and Young's accounts of oppression as a springboard, I develop a definition of privilege as a particular class of unearned advantages. -/- I distinguish my account of privilege from standard legal and philosophical definitions of privilege. The general distinction I make between privileges and advantages rests on three interrelated claims: that benefits granted by privilege are always unearned and conferred systemically to members of dominant social groups; that privileges granted to members of dominant groups solely on the basis of their membership in these groups is never justifiable; and, that privileges have an unconditional value that can be explained not only in terms of immunities, but also in terms of additional benefits

Feminism and Ecological Communities presents a bold and passionate rethinking of the ecofeminist movement. It is one of the first books to acknowledge the importance of postmodern feminist arguments against ecofeminism whilst persuasively preseenting a strong new case for econolocal feminism. Chris J.Cuomo first traces the emergence of ecofeminism from the ecological and feminist movements before clearly discussing the weaknesses of some ecofeminist positions. Exploring the dualisms of nature/culture and masculing/feminine that are the bulwark of many contemporary ecofeminist positions and questioning traditional traditional feminist analyses of gender and caring, Feminism and Ecological Communities asks whether women are essentially closer to nature than men and how we ought to link the oppression of women, people of colour, and other subjugated groups to the degradation of nature. Chris J.Cuomo addresses these key issues by drawing on recent work in feminist ethics as well as teh work of diverse figures such as Aristotle, John Dewey, Donna Haraway adn Maria Lugones. A fascinating feature of the book is the use of the metaphor of the cyborg to highlight the fluidity of the nature/culture distinction and how this can enrich econfeminist ethics and politics. An outstanding new argument for an ecological feminism that links both theory and practice, Feminism and Ecological Communities bravely redraws the ecofeminist map. It will be essential reading for all those interested in gender studies, environmental studies and philosophy.

An examination of the social and cultural significance of body art by a major new voice. The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in body art, in which the artist's body is integral to the work of art. With the revoking of NEA funding for such artists as Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and others, public awareness and media coverage of body-oriented performances have increased. Yet the roots of body art extend to the 1960s and before. In this definitive book, Amelia Jones explores body art projects from the 1960s and 1970s and relates their impact to the work of body artists active today, providing a new conceptual framework for defining postmodernism in the visual arts. Jones begins with a discussion of the shifting intellectual terrain of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the work of Ana Mendieta. Moving to an examination of the reception of Jackson Pollock's "performative" acts of painting, she argues that Pollock is a pivotal figure between modernism and postmodernism. The book continues with explorations of Vito Acconci and Hannah Wilke, whose practices exemplify a new kind of performance that arose in the late 1960s, one that represents a dramatic shift in the conception of the artistic subject. Jones then surveys the work of a younger generation of artists -- including Laurie Anderson, Orlan, Maureen Connor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Laura Aguilar, and Bob Flanagan -- whose recent work integrates technology and issues of identity to continue to expand the critique begun in earlier body art projects. Embracing an exhilarating mix of methodologies and perspectives (including feminism, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory), this rigorous and elegantexamination of body art provides rich historical insight and essential context that rethinks the parameters of postmodern culture.

‘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.

Girls in male-dominated youth subcultures confront ideologies of gender which remain largely invisible and often tacitly accepted in many women's everyday lives. Punk girls choose to construct their femininity within a highly male-dominated, "masculinist," context; girls are present in such youth subcultures, but the masculine definition of their norms problematizes their participation. Thus, punk girls struggle to accommodate female gender norms within subcultural identities which are deliberately coded as "masculine." Although young women in America encounter the norms of the female gender role on a daily basis, punk girls' negotiations between the norms of femininity and those of punk open these prescriptions to critical examination which they might not otherwise be accorded. In this dissertation, I explore accounts of punk girls' engagements with both mainstream and subcultural gender norms. In constructing this account of girls' lived experiences in the punk subculture, I rely primarily upon the phenomenology, or experiential narrative, of punk girls' everyday lives. I elicited these accounts within the context of conducting participant observation in the punk scenes of four North American cities (Atlanta, Montreal, New Orleans, and San Francisco) from 1993 to 1995, conducting ethnographic interviews with forty punk girls. In the following, I explore various facets of punk girls' engagements with gender norms, including punk girls' narratives of engagement with the subculture; the construction of punk as a discourse of masculinity; punk girls' stylistic, behavioral, and discursive reconstructions of femininity; punk girls' experiences of public harassment and sexual harassment, and their strategic responses to these. I argue that these girls use the punk subculture in order to carry out resistances to varied forms of gender oppression, thereby developing stronger self-concepts in the face of adversity.

''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.''

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.

This collection of essays explores the significant agreements and tensions between contemporary feminist and postmodern theories and practices. Having brought enormous changes to conceptions of the body, identity, and the media, postmodernity compels the rethinking of many feminist categories, including female experience, the self, and the notion that "the personal is political." Feminist analysis has been equally important, though not always equally acknowledged, as a force within postmodernism. Feminist writings on subjectivity, master narratives, and the socioeconomic underpinnings of the master narrative of theory itself have been particularly influential. This volume traces the crossings and mutual interrogations of these two traditions into the arenas of cultural production, legal discourse, and philosophical thought. Multidisciplinary and international in their collective focus, the essays range from a study of Madonna as an Italian American woman who is revising the cultural meanings of an ethnic feminism to a unique interview with Mairead Keane, the national head of the Women’s Department of the Irish political party Sinn Fein. Turning the prism of postmodern feminism onto such diverse cultural objects as literary and literary critical texts, contemporary film, and music, these essays intervene in debates regarding technology, sexuality, and politics. Challenging modern feminisms to articulate their inescapable relation to postmodern society, this expanded edition of a special issue of boundary 2 also explores ways in which feminism can work as the cutting edge of a global postmodernism. Contributors. Salwa Bakr, Claire Detels, Margaret Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Marjorie Garber, Barbara Harlow, Laura E. Lyons, Anne McClintock, Toril Moi, Linda Nicholson, Mary Poovey, Andrew Ross, David Simpson, Kathyrn Bond Stockton, Jennifer Wicke

Il s'agit de la première collection de théoriciennes féministes influentes à se concentrer sur le cœur de l'épistémologie traditionnelle, traitant de questions telles que la nature des connaissances et l'objectivité dans une perspective de genre.