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À l’occasion du 30e anniversaire de l’Association des Femmes autochtones du Québec, ces actes de colloque proposent de revoir le parcours des femmes autochtones dans leurs luttes pour l’égalité et la justice sociale.

Introduction to the issue 29, 2 "Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations".

Extrait de l'introduction : "Depuis quelques années, la question des relations entre les hommes et les femmes dans la société est revenue sur le devant de la scène. Plutôt tombée en désuétude dans les années 1980, elle est redevenue une question socialement vive, c'est-à-dire donnant lieu à un vif débat, dans le grand public comme dans le champ scientifique. Dès qu'on l'aborde, elle laisse bien peu de personnes indifférentes."

The influence of culture and ethnic background on women’s experience of domestic violence has been explored in research only recently. Here the authors review research about the impact of culture and minority status in the United States on women’s experience of domestic violence, considering family structure,immigration, acculturation, oppression, and community response. The authors encourage researchers and service providers to acknowledge the effects on women of sociopolitical dynamics, including racism, and to identify specific aspects of culture that are relevant to intimate partner abuse.

The purpose of this article is to put forward a theoretical discussion about Islamic views of sexuality and by means of an example show how Iranian immigrants in Sweden view sexuality and sexual culture. Building on theories that compare individualistic and holistic ways of thinking, the article seeks to elucidate the impact of basic cultural qualities on the formation of sexualities. The conclusion of the article is that the encounter with the Swedish way of thinking and the Swedish sexual culture seems to have influenced Iranian migrants' views on the nature of the relationship between couples and sexual decision making within the relationship. Exposed to an individualistic ideology and lifestyle in Sweden, Iranian migrants show a clear tendency to revise their previous holistic way of thinking, especially in regard to sexuality: the traditional, authoritarian, patriarchal sexual relationship among Iranian migrants in Sweden is giving way to more egalitarian relationships, and a relatively strong tendency towards a similarity of views between the sexes regarding sexuality can be observed. The most important change that could be observed in regard to the respondents in the study is probably an increased individualism.

Families are a challenge to the lesbian and gay movement in the United States, since homosexuality is largely construed as antithetical to "the family". By creating a wide variety of alternative families gays and lesbians however articulate an identity claim which may not be framed exclusively either in terms of assimilationism, or of differentialism. For this reason these alternative families present American society with a transformative potential which is in a position to exert its influence beyond the bounds of the gay and lesbian community. Far from being a hindrance in terms of efficiency, the very fact that these families constitute a private locus of gay and lesbian experience furthermore contributes to the lesbian and gay movement's expressive dimension, which is of crucial strategic importance in contemporary American society.

This essay aims to amplify feminist theory by articulating and fostering feminist disability theory. It names feminist disability studies as an academic field of inquiry, describes work that is already underway, calls for needed study and sets an agenda for future work in feminist disability studies. Feminist disability theory augments the terms and confronts the limits of the ways we understand human diversity, the materiality of the body, multiculturalism, and the social formations that interpret bodily differences. The essay asserts that integrating disability as a category of analysis and a system of representation deepens, expands, and challenges feminist theory. To elaborate on these premises, the essay discusses four fundamental and interpenetrating domains of feminist theory: representation, the body, identity, and activism, suggesting some critical inquiries that considering disability can generate within these theoretical arenas.

"This book is not about feminism. Rather, feminism is the basis of the discussion, an example of how understanding oppression must consider a number of barriers. Euro-Canadian feminists rarely address the circumstances that are unique to First Nations' women, instead working with the assumption that all women are a part of a similar struggle. Ouellette attempts to confront these barriers. Throughout interviews with a number of women, she highlights the following four questions. To what extent do Aboriginal women understand experience and articulate their oppression? To what extent do colonized women perceive racism as the source of their oppression? To what extent do Aboriginal women view male domination within their own Aboriginal societies as the source of the oppression? How do Aboriginal women articulate racism and gender oppression?The author argues that there will always be a dichotomy between European and Aboriginal thought. This book makes an important contribution toward a greater understanding of Aboriginal thought and an Aboriginal perspective on society. The Fourth World theory is an integrate part of the "Circle of Life" philosophy of Aboriginal people. In keeping with oral traditions, these teachings are passed on at gatherings and in private conversations. They compromise a distinctly Aboriginal worldview."

Comme caractéristique du développement capitaliste, la migration économique a toujours entraîné le travail sexuel. À l’heure de la mondialisation, cela signifie pour beaucoup de femmes, qui émigrent du village à la grande ville dans leur propre pays ou du pays natal à l’étranger, un choix imposé par les circonstances. Cet article examine surtout la décision d’émigrer, les moyens empruntés et la situation à l’étranger de celles - la grande majorité, d’ailleurs -- qui n’ont pas été victimes d’un trafic, mais qui ont exercé ce choix imposé. Le rôle dans l’émigration des travailleuses sexuelles et des clients « émigrés » en tant que touristes sexuels fait partie de la discussion, ainsi que d’autres caractéristiques économiques et culturelles.Summary As a feature of capitalist development, economic migration has historically entailed sex work as one of its components. In the age of globalization, this means a forced choice for many women, as they move from the village to the city in their own countries and across international borders. The present article focuses on the decision making process, the means of migration, and the experience in the urban site, national or international, of those -- the vast majority -- who have not been "trafficked", but have made this forced choice their life strategy. The impact on sex worker migration of customer "migration" in the form of sex tourism is discussed, along with the other economic and cultural factors.

L'auteur retrace l'histoire du concept d'hétérosexualité. Il analyse les textes d'auteurs comme Freud, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Michel Foucault, Betty Friedan ou Kate Millet. Il nous montre que la distinction homosexuel/hétérosexuel ne repose pas sur une nature immuable mais constitue une façon récente de classer et de juger la société. [SDM].

Table de matières: Pour une participation équitable des femmes des Premières nations à la gestion des affaires publiques, Judith F. Sayers et Kelly A. MacDonald. Les femmes des Premières nations et la gouvernance : Étude sur les coutumes et les nouvelles pratiques chez les femmes de la Première nation de Lake Babine, Jo-Anne Fiske, Melonie Newell et Evelyn George. La gouvernance des Premières nations, la Loi sur les Indiens et les droits à l’égalité des femmes, Wendy Cornet.

Discusses the causes and determining factors of gender behavior differences and sexual identity, particularly biology and societal expectations, and argues that differences between male and female are not always distinct.

Comprendre ce que sont les hommes et les femmes, penser la différence entre les sexes a constitué et constitue encore un objet d'investigation et un enjeu politique et social de premier ordre. Des sciences d'hier à celles d'aujourd'hui, des discours et des pratiques médicales aux plus récentes sciences humaines, les auteurs de cet ouvrage révèlent la fragilité des évidences dites sur la nature ou le corps des femmes et des hommes, et insistent sur la force des arrangements et organisations du social qui ont pu en découler. Plus qu'une enquête descriptive sur les états variables des représentations proposées par les sciences, il s'agit d'analyser comment les scientifiques " en société " élaborent les critères de différenciation entre les sexes, contribuant à faire endosser à la nature certaines formes de domination. Convié à découvrir, en France et à l'étranger, l'histoire récente de ces nouveaux terrains d'enquête, le lecteur est aussi invité à méditer sur les effets de longue durée d'une modernité occidentale instaurée sous le signe de l'altérité entre raison et nature, hommes et femmes.

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.

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.

Cette publication de 1999 porte sur l’histoire des féminismes. *** FéminÉtudes est une revue étudiante, féministe et multidisciplinaire. La revue est née en 1995 de l’initiative d’étudiantes féministes dans l’intérêt de partager leurs recherches et de créer un groupe affinitaire. La revue est dirigée par des collectifs de rédaction bénévoles et autogérés, et soutenue par l’Institut de Recherches en Études Féministes (IREF) de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Au fil des ans, FéminÉtudes a réussi à se bâtir une réputation et une légitimité dans le champ de la recherche en études féministes, tout en offrant une tribune au travaux et aux réflexions de dizaines d’étudiant.e.s. Au-delà de la recherche, c’est également pour l’avancement des luttes féministes que FéminÉtudes souhaite continuer à grandir.

In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial, ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.