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Inside the Academy and Out demonstrates that the pedagogical and theoretical insights offered by lesbian/gay/queer studies can have relevance to a broader social sphere. The essayists represented here come from a wide range of disciplines, including English, education, philosophy, sociology, and women's studies. Their essays are divided into two broad areas: 'Pedagogy and Research' and 'Spheres of Action.' Taken together, they explore teaching and research theory, examining their implications in areas such as AIDS education, social services, law reform, and popular culture.

Après un quart de siècle de néoféminisme, on connaît encore mal la recherche féministe et l’ampleur du travail accompli par ces chercheuses. Les auteures examinent ici les travaux qui ont porté sur la famille, la conciliation travail-famille et sur l’emploi, ceux qui ont documenté des aspects particuliers de la santé des femmes et de la violence conjugale ainsi que les nombreuses études produites dans le domaine de l’éducation. Elles mettent également en lumière les changements et les résistances révélés par les recherches dans le champ religieux, le champ politique, celui du droit de même que dans le domaine des communications. Ce faisant, elles rendent manifestes les caractéristiques de la recherche féministe québécoise, notamment les liens établis par les chercheuses entre théorie et pratique, recherche et action. Des textes de Pierrette Bouchard, Anita Caron, Renée Cloutier, Christine Corbeil, Huguette Dagenais, René B.-Dandurand, Francine Descarries, Louise Guyon, Thérèse Hamel, Geneviève Martin, Karen Messing, Josée Néron, Ann Robinson, Armande Saint-Jean, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay et Manon Tremblay.

This book examines a key question that has divided feminists for decades: is censoring pornography good or bad for women? The book makes a powerful case that increasing government power to censor sexual expression, beyond the limits that the First Amendment sensibly permits (for example, outlawing child pornography) would do more harm than good for women and others who have traditionally been marginalized due to sex or gender. The book explains how the very anti-porn laws pushed by some feminists have led to the censorship of LGBTQ+ and feminist works, and it examines the startling connections between anti-porn feminists and right-wing fundamentalists. The book lays out the multiple current assaults on sexual expression, which continue to come from across the ideological spectrum. It shows that freedom for such expression remains an essential prerequisite for the equality, safety, and dignity of women and sexual/gender minorities.

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.

The interest in understanding and analyzing the situation of native women within the penal process is recent and seems to be limited by the inordinate attention paid by researchers to the overrepresentation of native women. This article is an account of the findings and analyses made to date in this recent sector of research. It presents an inventory of the principal data concerning the confrontation of native women with the penal process. It proposes a synthesis of the principal analyses of the problems of native women with the system of justice by presenting a critical analysis of the socio-structural model of LaPrairie.

L'étude de la campagne de criminalisation de la pornographie au Canada, dans les années 1980, pose un défi au savoir conventionnel qui s'est développé, en sociologie et en criminologie, sur la réforme du droit. Ce savoir est l'argumentation selon laquelle les réformes, en dispersant le contrôle social, ne font que légitimer le système sans le modifier fondamentalement. Afin d'éviter l'essentialisme de ce savoir, j'ai utilisé une approche reflexive qui pense la relation entre la réforme du droit et le pouvoir comme à la fois contraignante et facilitante. L'établissement d'un lien entre la pornographie et la déviance sociale n'apparaît pas comme une construction sociale unifiée, mais comme un terrain contesté dans lequel se produisent des rapports de pouvoir complexes, et une multiplicité de stratégies de résistance. C'est dans ce sens que la réforme apparaît comme un mécanisme générateur des pratiques.

This work is a feminist critique of modern political theory. The author sets out to show how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines democratic values but has led to a major crisis over gender-related issues.

"Pornography is central in creating and maintaining the civil inequality of the sexes. Pornography is a systematic practice of exploitation and subordination based on sex which differentially harms women. . . ." With those bold words began the groundbreaking local antipornography law drafted by writer Andrea Dworkin and lawyer Catharine A. MacKinnon. Their completely new legal approach--in which pornography is defined as sex discrimination and therefore a violation of civil rights--would allow anyone injured by pornography to fight back by filing a civil lawsuit against pornographers. First passed in December 1983 in Minneapolis, where it was supported by a grassroots coalition of women, people of color, neighborhood groups, and the city's welfare poor and working poor, this law has transformed the way people of conscience understand the devastating impact of pornography on women's right to equality. This new law also offers hope: an effective legal tool for making sex equality real. In this comprehensive and easy-to-read guidebook, now available on line, the coauthors of the anti-pornography civil-rights ordinance explain: How pornography hurts women and how and why the civil-rights ordinance would make a difference. Why the pornography is so important to women's equality. The truth about the antipornography civil-rights ordinance--what it is, what it does, what it means, how it works. Answers to the lies about it--lies that the media have spread to protect the pornography industry. What you can do to stop the pornographers and further women's equality. "The Ordinance does not take 'rights' away from anyone, . . . it takes the power to hurt women away from pornographers." --from Pornography and Civil Rights

Responding to the need for a comprehensive source of information regarding the separation of American Indian children from their families, this book presents essays which: examine the Indian child-welfare crisis in contemporary, legal, and historical perspectives; document the human cost of the crisis to Indian parents, children, and communities; and report on innovative programs designed and implemented by the Indian tribes themselves. Specifically, this book includes the following sections and essay titles: (1) Contemporary Overviews ("The Destruction of American Indian Families" and "The Role of the Federal Government: A Congressional View"); (2) Historical Perspectives ("The Effects of Boarding Schools on Indian Family Life: 1928" and "'Kid Catching' on the Navajo Reservation: 1920"); (3) The Human Cost ("'The Drunken Indian': Myths and Realities"; "The Wasted Strengths of Indian Families", "The Human Cost of Removing Indian Children from Their Families", "Child-Welfare Services to Indian People in the Albuquerque Area", "Indian Child Welfare in Oregon", "The Ravage of Indian Families in Crisis", "The Question of Best Interest", and "The Placement of American Indian Children--The Need for Change"); (4) A Legal Perspective ("Parent and Child Relationships in Law and in Navajo Custom"); (5) Tribal Actions ("Indian Children and Tribal Group Homes: New Interpretations of the Whipper Man" and "Tribal Resolutions"). (JC)