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Colonialism/Postcolonialism est un guide complet mais accessible sur les dimensions historiques, théoriques et politiques des études coloniales et postcoloniales. Ania Loomba examines the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism, and the relationship of colonial discourse to literature. She goes on to consider the challenges to colonialism, surveying anti-colonial discourses, and recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories. Looking at how sexuality is figured in the texts of colonialism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism shows how contemporary feminist ideas and concepts intersect with those of postcolonialist thought

This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities―as well as the transformative possibilities―between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.

The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes & Noble books to Bass Ale. Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings represents the first book devoted to Woolf's lesbianism. Divided into two sections, Lesbian Intersections and Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels, these essays focus on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Lesbian Intersections includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels provides lesbian interpretations of the individual novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years. Breaking new ground in our understanding of the role Woolf's love for women plays in her major writing, these essays shift the emphasis of lesbian interpretations from Woolf's life to her work.

Siopis has always engaged in a critical and controversial way with the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ in South Africa. For politically sensitive artists whose work has involved confronting the injustices of apartheid, the current post-apartheid situation has forced a reassessment of their practice and the terms on which they might engage with the fundamental changes which are now affecting all of South African society. Where mythologies of race and ethnicity have been strategically foregrounded in the art of any engaged artist, to the exclusion of many other concerns, the demise of apartheid offers the possibility of exploring other dimensions of lived experience in South Africa. For feminists, this is potentially a very positive moment when questions of gender – so long subordinated to the structural issue of ‘race’ under apartheid – can now be explored. Penny Siopis’ work has long been concerned with the lived and historical relations between black and white women in South Africa. The discussion focuses on the ambivalent and dependent relationships formed between white middle-class women and black domestic labour during apartheid. Siopis’ work engages with how the appropriation of black women's time, lives, labour and bodies has shaped her ‘own’ history.

This collection addresses the issues raised by the postcolonial condition, considering nationhood, history, gender and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Comment les circonstances spécifiques dans lesquelles nous écrivons affectent-elles ce que nous écrivons ? Comment ce que nous écrivons affecte-t-il ce que nous devenons ? Comment pouvons-nous maintenir l'intégrité professionnelle et personnelle dans l'université d'aujourd'hui ? Dans une série d'écrits traditionnels et expérimentaux, aboutissement de dix années de travaux en cours, Laurel Richardson enregistre un parcours intellectuel, déplaçant les frontières et créant de nouvelles façons de lire et d'écrire. Appliquant l'imaginaire sociologique au processus d'écriture, elle relie sa vie à son travail. Profondément engageant, écrit de manière émouvante avec grâce, élégance et clarté, le livre stimule les lecteurs à situer leur propre écriture dans des contextes personnels, sociaux et politiques.

L’auteure examine la pertinence de la critique féministe étasunienne en musique en milieu francophone québécois. Dans un premier temps, elle propose une réflexion critique sur le féminisme étasunien en musique. Puis, elle pose la question de la pertinence de ses fondements et de ses méthodologies pour les jeunes musicien(ne)s issus du milieu culturel francophone du Québec qui, au moment d’entreprendre des études avancées, envisageraient de se consacrer à la recherche sur la pensée féministe.

"Taking on those who would limit sexual freedom, New Sexual Agendas challenges the notion that there are fixed sexual behaviors for men and women. This engaging collection draws on a number of disciplines including women's studies, literature, gender studies, cultural studies, history, politics, education, sociology, and psychology."

La lesbienne telle qu'on la connaît aujourd'hui est entrée dans le roman français avec La Religieuse de Diderot (pub. 1796), et jusqu'en 1926 elle est créée et recréée presqu'exclusivement par les écrivains hommes qui modèlent leurs personnages sur Margarita de La Fille aux yeux d'or de Balzac et Mademoiselle de Maupin de Gautier, pour en faire des femmes menaçantes pour la virilité collective. A partir de 1930 les expériences littéraires lesbiennes sont prises en charge par des auteures femmes qui en explorent les secrets, les misères et les oppressions d'abord, et ensuite — à partir de l'oeuvre de Monique Wittig et de Jocelyne François — la vie quotidienne dans sa variété. Cet article est un compte rendu d'unprojet de recherche en cours — projet qui étudie un territoire littéraire jusqu'ici totalement ignoré dans l'histoire du roman.

This volume brings together 58 previously published essays on 19th and 20th century British and North American texts that were written from the mid-1970s to 1990 by feminist literary critics. These essays cover a variety of critical perspectives, including Anglo-American, French, Marxist, structuralist, new historicist, and psychoanalytic. The 13 sections of the book cover various issues in feminist criticism: institutions, methodologies, canon, tradition, body, desire, reading, discourse, ethnicity, history, class, men, and autobiography. Each section includes essays addressing the intersections of feminist concern with questions of class, race, sexual preference, and nationality. Contributors include Barbara Christian, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Helene Cixous, and Elaine Showalter

" À la suite de Djuna est une analyse fascinante de l'érotisme textuel et des séductions lyriques de l'œuvre de Djuna Barnes et des écrivain.e.s qu'elle influence. Cette généalogie scintillante de l'intertextualité lesbienne. . . élargit le champ de la recherche littéraire lesbienne et féministe et les concepts de la production littéraire lesbienne. » —Judith Roof

How have women artists taken possession of the female body? What is the relationship between looking and embodiment in art made by women? In a series of original readings of the work of artists from Kathe Kollwitz and Georgia O'Keeffe to Helen Chadwick and Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Rosemary Betterton explores how women artists have addressed the changing relationship between women, the body and its representation in art. In detailed critical essays that range from the analysis of maternal imagery in the work of German artists at the turn of the century to the unrepresented body in contemporary abstract painting, Betterton argues that women's art practices offer new ways of engaging with our fascinations with and fears about the female body. Reflecting the shift within feminist art over the last decade, An Intimate Distance sets the reinscription of the body within women's art practice in the context of current debates on the body, including reproductive science, maternal subjectivity and the concept of 'body horror' in relation to food, ageing and sex. Drawing on recent theories of embodiment developed within feminist philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, the essays reveal how the permeable boundaries between nature and culture, the female body and technology are being crossed in the work of women artists.

La compagnie de théâtre Split Britches a ouvert la voie en matière de performances lesbiennes innovantes et stimulantes au cours de la dernière décennie. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance est une célébration tant attendue du théâtre et de l'écriture de Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw et Deborah Margolin, qui composent cette troupe exceptionnelle. Cette anthologie unique est accompagnée de : * sept des textes de performance les plus appréciés de Split Britches * une introduction critique et historique de Sue-Ellen Case * des notes de programme pour accompagner chacune des pièces * une gamme d'illustrations photographiques époustouflantes La publication des textes de la pièce Split Britches, rassemblés ici pour la première fois, offre un accès inestimable à ces célèbres pièces de performance tant pour les étudiant.e.s que pour le public des arts contemporains.

"Femmes rebelles " porte sur la nouvelle génération d'écrivainsfemmes africaines francophones des dix dernières années et l'évolution frappante de leur écriture dans ce court laps de temps. Aux premières oeuvres de témoignage du début des années 80 s'est substituée une deuxième phase montrant une écriture plus agressive, plus revendicatrice : . Ce livre examine le mécanisme de rébellion que les écrivains femmes ont instituées à cet effet dans leur critique de l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui.

Qu’est-ce que la littérature lesbienne ? Doit-il contenir des personnages ouvertement lesbiens et les présenter sous un jour positif ? L’auteurice doit-iel être ouvertement (ou secrètement) lesbienne ? Doit-il y avoir un thème lesbien et doit-il être politiquement acceptable ? Marilyn Farwell examine ici le travail d'écrivaines tels qu'Adrienne Rich, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jeanette Winterson, Gloria Naylor et Marilyn Hacker pour répondre à ces questions. Divisant leurs écrits en deux genres : l'histoire romantique et l'histoire héroïque, ou de quête, Farwell aborde certaines des questions les plus problématiques à l'intersection de la littérature, du sexe, du genre et du postmodernisme. Illustrant comment le conflit générationnel entre les lesbiennes-féministes d’il y a vingt ans et les théoricien.nes queer d’aujourd’hui attise les feux critiques de la théorie lesbienne et littéraire contemporaine, Heterosexual plots and lesbian narratives conclut en plaidant en faveur d’une définition large et généreuse de l’écriture lesbienne.

Sujets postcoloniaux » est un projet collectif centré sur les questions de langue, d'identité et de voix alors qu'ils abordent les questions de genre, de race, d'ethnicité, de culture et de nation. Les essais critiques présentés ici portent sur les contributions littéraires de femmes contemporaines écrivant en français dont les liens culturels, les identités ethniques et les racines historiques se situent au-delà de l'Hexagone, au-delà de la carte à six faces de la France.

Self-portraiture has long been a means for the male artist to assert an identity as masterful creator or tortured soul; women have overwhelmingly been presented as objects, and rarely as subjects of self-portraiture. In recent years, however, women artists have used their work to disrupt this tradition. With 43 illustrations of works by Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence, among others, The Art of Reflection is the first sustained inquiry into the appropriation of self-portraiture by women. In suggestive critical meditations on paintings, photographic work, sculpture, performance art, and body art, Marsha Meskimmon shows how twentieth-century women artists have undermined male-centered definitions of how "the artist" depicts the self. Drawing upon feminist theory and philosophy from Simone de Beauvoir to Luce Irigaray, The Art of Reflection casts doubt on the idea of self-portrait as a mirror, in which the static self is rendered accurately and naturalistically. Meskimmon evokes a series of myths about what an artist is, how "he" should be represented, and how "his" work is to be read as autobiography. Through close readings of the imaginative self-representations of women artists -as male artist and god, as central player in the studio and in the Christian passion- she shatters these myths. In an absorbing assessment of the ways women artists have negotiated the complex group of roles ascribed to "woman," Meskimmon considers the partially nude painting by pregnant artist Paula Modersohn-Becker and performance artist Annie Sprinkle's confrontation of the thin line between celebration of female sexuality and objectification of the female body. As a nuanced appreciation of the interpretations of self-portraiture among women artists, The Art of Reflection will prove an invaluable resource on a subject that has received little attention from art criticism. Meskimmon's work also presents a bold challenge to critical tradition, compelling readers to rethink the meaning of the genre as a whole.