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"Comment expliquer qu’Israël, malgré ses attaques meurtrières à Gaza et sa violation du droit international, reste à l’abri de toute véritable critique? Pourquoi de nombreuses féministes du Nord global, si promptes à dénoncer l’impact du «fondamentalisme islamique» sur les femmes palestiniennes, restent-elles silencieuses quand il s’agit de décrier l’occupation et le génocide que perpétue l’État israélien en Palestine? En déconstruisant les associations fallacieuses entre antisionisme et antisémitisme, la professeure et militante palestinienne Nada Elia, qui vit aujourd’hui aux États-Unis, rappelle la place des femmes et des personnes queers dans la lutte pour la libération de la Palestine, et revendique le démantèlement des structures coloniales qui écrasent la population à Gaza et en Cisjordanie."-- Site de l'éditeur.

La matière première de ce livre est une série d'entretiens menés par Beverley Skeggs avec quatre-vingt-trois jeunes femmes issues de la classe ouvrière anglaise, inscrites à une formation d'aide à la personne et travaillées par leur propre respectabilité. Abordant leur rapport à la sexualité, à la classe ou au féminisme, cet ouvrage vient apporter un prolongement essentiel aux travaux de Pierre Bourdieu et de Paul Willis.

Les femmes handicapées, leurs réalités et leurs combats sont encore largement absents du courant de pensée majoritaire (mainstream) en études féministes qui, malgré un virage récent vers les analyses intersectionnelles, demeurent peu au fait des modalités d'analyse du handicap et des oppressions fondées sur les (in)capacités. Cet article veut permettre à un lectorat francophone de se familiariser avec les principales bases conceptuelles utilisées pour théoriser le handicap et les (in)capacités développées dans le domaine des études critiques du handicap, et en particulier par les auteures féministes travaillant dans ce champ. Il vise également à contribuer aux connaissances féministes des enjeux de transformation sociopolitique qui sont centraux pour les femmes handicapées, tels que ceux-ci sont révélés par les luttes de l'organisation féministe Action des femmes handicapées (Montréal). En conclusion, l'auteure explique la raison pour laquelle le handicap doit être considéré comme un enjeu féministe

We conducted a review of literature regarding sexual attitudes and double standards, focusing on participant gender and ethnic background. We found that men had more permissive sexual attitudes than women, and that African Americans had the most permissive sexual attitudes, followed by White Americans, then by Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans. The literature regarding sexual double standards was mixed; some studies showed evidence of continued sexual double standards and some studies showed the absence of sexual double standards. In some studies, men were more likely to endorse the sexual double standard than women. We found only one article addressing sexual double standards using ethnic background as a quasi-independent variable; this research revealed that non-North American (Russian and Japanese) samples were more likely to endorse the traditional double standard, that sex is more acceptable for men than for women.

In the mid-1990s, scholars turned their attention toward the ways that ongoing political, economic, and cultural transformations were changing the realm of the social, specifically that aspect of it described by the notion of affect: pre-individual bodily forces, linked to autonomic responses, which augment or diminish a body’s capacity to act or engage with others. This “affective turn” and the new configurations of bodies, technology, and matter that it reveals, is the subject of this collection of essays. Scholars based in sociology, cultural studies, science studies, and women’s studies illuminate the movement in thought from a psychoanalytically informed criticism of subject identity, representation, and trauma to an engagement with information and affect; from a privileging of the organic body to an exploration of nonorganic life; and from the presumption of equilibrium-seeking closed systems to an engagement with the complexity of open systems under far-from-equilibrium conditions. Taken together, these essays suggest that attending to the affective turn is necessary to theorizing the social.

"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."

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].

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.

When is rape not a crime? When it's pornography--or so First Amendment law seems to say: in film, a rape becomes "free speech." Pornography, Catharine MacKinnon contends, is neither speech nor free. Pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such. Only Words is a powerful indictment of a legal system at odds with itself, its First Amendment promoting the very inequalities its Fourteenth Amendment is supposed to end. In the bold and compelling style that has made her one of our most provocative legal critics, MacKinnon depicts a society caught in a vicious hypocrisy. Words that offer bribes or fix prices or segregate facilities are treated by law as acts, but words and pictures that victimize and target on the basis of race and sex are not. Pornography--an act of sexual domination reproduced in the viewing--is protected by law in the name of "the free and open exchange of ideas." But the proper concern of law, MacKinnon says, is not what speech says, but what it does. What the "speech" of pornography and of racial and sexual harassment and hate propaganda does is promote and enact the power of one social group over another. Cutting with surgical deftness through cases of harassment in the workplace and on college campuses, through First Amendment cases involving Nazis, Klansmen, and pornographers, MacKinnon shows that as long as discriminatory practices are protected as free speech, equality will be only a word.