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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.

The mainstreaming of pornography, often referred to as pornographication, pornification, or porn-chic, has become a topic of considerable academic and popular interest. In the last 15 years, an expanding academic literature has documented and begun to analyze the increasing consumption and normalization of pornography as well as pornographic imagery. More recently, there has also been a growing concern among policymakers and commentators in the mainstream media about trends labeled “sexualization” and, in particular, the potential consequences of these trends for children. This article begins by sketching out the academic origins of “pornographication” and related terms before considering the different ways that prominent authors have conceptualized them. Recent literature on sexualization is then outlined, with a focus on understanding this in the context of discussions around pornographication. Using a number of examples from key academic texts, and from prominent print media outlets in Australia, we argue that there is a lack of conceptual clarity about pornographication and that pornographication is often conflated with sexualization. We suggest that the lack of clarity in existing literature creates two key issues for feminist analysis: (1) it obscures the role of the pornography industry in the processes of pornographication and (2) it deflects discussion away from the potential harms of the normalization of pornography and pornographic imagery for adult women. It is, therefore, important to clarify and separate the terminology of pornographication and sexualization in order to further critical feminist analyses of these cultural trends.

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

Much research has been conducted on ethnic differences in sexuality, but few studies have systematically assessed the importance of acculturation in sexual behavior. The present study assessed general differences in normative sexual practices in healthy Euro-American, Asian, and Hispanic populations, using measures of acculturation to analyze the relative effects of heritage and mainstream cultures within each group. A total of 1,419 undergraduates (67% Euro-American, 17% Hispanic, 16% Asian; 33% men, 67% women) completed questionnaires which assessed sexual experience and causal sexual behaviors. In concordance with previous studies, Asians reported more conservative levels of sexual experience and frequency of sexual behaviors, fewer lifetime partners, and later ages of sexual debut than Euro-American or Hispanic counterparts. Hispanic reported sexual experiences similar to that of Euro-Americans. There was a significant interaction between mainstream and heritage acculturation in predicting number of lifetime sexual partners in Asian women such that the relationship between heritage acculturation and casual sexual behavior was stronger at lower levels of mainstream acculturation. On the other hand, in Hispanic men, higher levels of mainstream acculturation predicted more casual sexual behavior (one-time sexual encounters and number of lifetime sexual partners) when heritage acculturation was low but less casual sexual behavior when heritage acculturation was high. These results suggest that, for sexual behavior, Hispanic men follow an “ethnogenesis” model of acculturation while Asian women follow an “assimilation” model of acculturation.

Les intersections entre la culture, le genre et la sexualité retiennent aujourd’hui l’attention des chercheurs qui travaillent sur la diversité sexuelle, une tendance que l’on rencontre dans l’espace québécois et canadien. Plusieurs études ont ainsi porté sur ces enjeux parmi les autochtones et les groupes ethnoculturels. Cet ouvrage collectif, réalisé par des chercheurs, anglophones et francophones, de l’équipe pancanadienne Sexualités, Vulnérabilités et Résilience, présente ainsi un ensemble de travaux qui font le point sur ces questions. Les dimensions théoriques et méthodologiques sont ainsi cernées et des études empiriques, faisant appel à des approches quantitatives et qualitatives, traitent des trajectoires et des identités parmi différentes populations, des problèmes de santé auxquels elles peuvent être confrontées et des variations dans les usages sociosexuels d’Internet. Ce tour d’horizon aide à mieux comprendre la complexité des intersections touchant les identités sexuelles et les dimensions culturelles et suggère des pistes de recherche et d’intervention à développer.

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.

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.

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.

"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."