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S’inscrivant dans le mouvement des études féministes qui ont marqué les années quatre-vingt, cet ouvrage réunit les différents points de vue de femmes universitaires engagées dans des champs de recherches aussi divers que la biologie, le droit, la linguistique. Partant de l’examen critique de la distinction sexe et genre, elles analysent les mécanismes qui assurent le maintien de la domination masculine et font progresser la réflexion sur les déterminants de la subordination des femmes.

Les « collectives » représentent depuis quelques années un nouveau mode d'organisation présent au sein d'un certain nombre de groupes de femmes qui ont valeur exemplaire, car elles représentent des lieux originaux de bouillonnement et d'innovation. Dans les collectives de femmes, le changement social n'est pas qu'un but extérieur, mais il est aussi visé à l'interne, au sein même des groupes. C'est précisément ce que l'article veut précisément aborder. Dans un premier temps, il dégage les principales caractéristiques de la collective. Dans un deuxième temps, il présente quelques données empiriques se rapportant à des expériences concrètes d'organisation en collective.

À partir du constat que la vie familiale a connu des transformations importantes depuis un quart de siècle, cet article cherche à répondre à deux questions : comment l’approche sociologique peut-elle appréhender de tels phénomènes? Quelle lecture faut-il privilégier pour bien en saisir la signification?

Instabili: La question du sujet, sous la direction de Marie Fraser et Lesley Johnstone Publiés à l’occasion du 16e anniversaire de Powerhouse, sept textes et cinq projets d’artistes questionnent les multiples rapports existant entre féminisme et arts visuels, et proposent également une histoire de la galerie. L’ouvrage inclut aussi une chronologie des événements (1973-1989) qui ont marqué cette histoire. Textes de Marie Fraser, Christine Ross, Mary Kelly, Catherine Bédard, Liz Magro, Joanna Nash, Thérèse St-Gelais et Nell Tenhaaf.

The aim of the book is to explore the connection between two perspectives that have had a profound effect upon contemporary thought: post-modernism and feminism. Through bringing together and systematically analysing the relations between these, Hekman is able to make a major intervention into current debates in social theory and philosophy. The critique of Enlightenment knowledge, she argues, is at the core of both post-modernism and feminism. Each also offers a basis for critical reflections about the other. In particular, post-modern philosophy provides a means of criticizing aspects of contemporary feminism and thus contributing to the development of a more sophisticated approach to current feminist issues.

bell hooks crosses boundaries in major debates on postmodern theory, cultural criticism, and the politics of race and gender. She warns that “discourse” about “difference” is dangerously detachable from more essential struggles.

Pendant des millénaires, tout paraissait simple : aux hommes la création, aux femmes la procréation ; aux hommes l'esprit et aux femmes le corps. L'émancipation féminine a bousculé cette distribution des rôles et mis à mal des métaphores séculaires : la muse féminine, l'œuvre d'art comme amante ou comme " enfant " de l'artiste. Mais trouver un nouveau modus vivendi n'est pas facile pour autant. Mettant à profit une certaine et curieuse forme de clairvoyance liée, dans son esprit, aux métamorphoses de son corps de femme enceinte, Nancy Huston s'est penchée sur les histoires souvent douloureuses de Sand et Musset, Virginia et Leonard Woolf, Scott et Zelda Fitzgerald, Sartre et Beauvoir. Le récit de ses recherches sur les couples d'écrivains et le journal de sa propre grossesse se croisent, se répondent et se complètent pour évoquer les mystères de l'amour, de l'inspiration, du couple et de la création.

In this anthology, prominent contemporary theorists assess the benefits and dangers of postmodernism for feminist theory. The contributors examine the meaning of postmodernism both as a methodological position and a diagnosis of the times. They consider such issues as the nature of personal and social identity today, the political implications of recent aesthetic trends, and the consequences of changing work and family relations on women's lives. Contributors: Seyla Benhabib, Susan Bordo, Judith Butler, Christine Di Stefano, Jane Flax, Nancy Fraser, Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, Nancy Hartsock, Andreas Huyssen, Linda J. Nicholson, Elspeth Probyn, Anna Yeatman, Iris Young.

We need a feminist theory of disability, both because 16 percent of women are disabled, and because the oppression of disabled people is closely linked to the cultural oppression of the body. Disability is not a biological given; like gender, it is socially constructed from biologically reality. Our culture idealizes the body and demands that we control it. Thus, although most people will be disabled at some time in their lives, the disabled are made "the other," who symbolize failure of control and the threat of pain, limitation, dependency, and death. If disabled people and their knowledge were fully integrated into society, everyone's relation to her/his real body would be liberated.

"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

Through work to bring materials and perspectives from Women's Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged in the curriculum, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. These denials protect male privilege from being fully recognized, acknowledged, lessened, or ended.

In this remarkably original work of political philosophy, one of today's foremost feminist theorist challenges the way contemporary society functions by questioning the standard interpretation of an idea that is deeply embedded in American and British political thought: that our rights and freedoms derive from the social contract explicated by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau and interpreted in the United States by the Founding Fathers.

GRIIGES, Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire sur la gestion sociale. Actes d'un colloque tenu du 9 au 11 oct. 1987 à l'Université de Moncton.