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Depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, treize nouveaux contraceptifs féminins ont été émis au point alors que les contraceptifs masculins sont à peu près inchangés depuis quatre cents ans. La responsabilité contraceptive, avec les risques qui en découlent pour la santé, est donc attribuée principalement aux femmes. Cet article se propose d’analyser le rôle de différents acteurs dans la réécriture éventuelle des rapports de genre autour de la contraception. Nous nous concentrerons sur le cas des nouvelles techniques contraceptives, surtout masculines, et la manière dont leurs utilisateurs sont définis. Alors que la plupart des travaux en sociologie des techniques insistent sur le rôle de l’innovation dans cette définition de l’utilisateur, nous montrerons qu’aux côtés des scientifiques, les féministes et les journalistes ont joué un rôle important dans la configuration des utilisateurs potentiels de ces techniques contraceptives : ils ont construit une grande variété de représentations de la masculinité et des utilisateurs hommes. Ces représentations sont utilisées soit pour montrer qu’il n’y a pas d’obstacle culturel à l’acceptabilité de ces techniques, soit à l’inverse, pour en dénoncer le caractère utopique.

Since the beginnings of time, people have been interested in sex - the form it takes, the pleasure it can give, the circumstances in which it occurs, and what it means - both for the individuals concerned and to society more generally. Often seen as a synonym for love, sometimes as an expression of power, and infrequently as a means of exploitation and abuse, sex is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of human behaviour that has been written about by numerous writers and theorists worldwide. This book offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research. It will be of use to students of sociology, cultural studies, and health and behavioural studies.

In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?

The Good-Natured Feminist inaugure une conversation soutenue entre l'écoféminisme et les écrits récents du postmodernisme féministe et de la démocratie radicale. Partant de l'hypothèse que l'écoféminisme est un corpus de théorie démocratique, le livre raconte comment le mouvement est né des débats sur la « nature » ​​dans les féminismes radicaux nord-américains, comment il s'est ensuite mêlé à la politique identitaire et comment il cherche maintenant à inclure la nature dans la conversation démocratique et, surtout, de politiser les relations entre genre et nature dans les milieux tant théoriques qu'activistes.

Cet article rend compte du débat mené au Brésil autour des droits reproductifs et souligne les avancées et les contradictions particulières de deux problèmes que rencontrent actuellement les femmes brésiliennes : la stérilisation et la pratique illégale de l’avortement. Il met en évidence que la pratique généralisée de la stérilisation féminine et le nombre des avortements clandestins, qui représentent un risque pour la santé des femmes, révèlent les carences de la politique de la santé sur le plan des choix reproductifs et de la politique de contrôle démographique. Il montre les diverses orientations prises par ce débat à la fin des années quatre-vingt-dix et la nécessité de se réapproprier sa dynamique de transformation sociale.

Are the “culture wars” over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world’s foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave. “We cannot merely continue to act out the part of Caliban,” Spivak writes; and her book is an attempt to understand and describe a more responsible role for the postcolonial critic. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason tracks the figure of the “native informant” through various cultural practices—philosophy, history, literature—to suggest that it emerges as the metropolitan hybrid. The book addresses feminists, philosophers, critics, and interventionist intellectuals, as they unite and divide. It ranges from Kant’s analytic of the sublime to child labor in Bangladesh. Throughout, the notion of a Third World interloper as the pure victim of a colonialist oppressor emerges as sharply suspect: the mud we sling at certain seemingly overbearing ancestors such as Marx and Kant may be the very ground we stand on. A major critical work, Spivak’s book redefines and repositions the postcolonial critic, leading her through transnational cultural studies into considerations of globality.

L’analyse des relations entre acteurs des nouvelles techniques de reproduction a souvent conduit à privilégier la description des stratégies de ceux qui sont désignés comme dominants : les inventeurs, les médecins, les hommes. A l’inverse, on s’intéressera ici à l’expérience des femmes en faisant l’hypothèse qu’il existe des différenciations dans la démarche de procréation médicalement assistée à l’image de la complexité des rapports sociaux de sexe. Effectivement, l’analyse des parcours de femmes, à partir des dossiers médicaux d’un service hospitalier spécialisé, révèle des lignes de conduite spécifiques : sont ainsi mises à jour des stratégies différentes selon la situation professionnelle, le niveau de qualification, la position vis-à-vis de l’hôpital. Avec la médicalisation croissante de notre société, le « devoir de procréation » se jouerait donc sur une scène où interviennent conjointement les rapports sociaux de sexe, la position vis-à-vis du travail, le lien avec l’institution médicale.

This study explores the role feminist ideology played in long-term structural changes in feminist organizations. The vehicle for this exploration was a comparative case study of 14 feminist women's health centers that were started in the 1970s and were still in existence in the early 1990s. Drawing on interviews and site visits, the author describes the early collectivist structures, highlights some of the crises these organizations faced, and describes three structural ideal types that emerged in the 1990s. The analysis suggests three ideological issues that directed structural change: the importance of maintaining a system for the equitable distribution of power, the importance of growth versus autonomy, and the importance of feminism as an organizational outcome or internal process.

Cet article décrit l’émergence de deux nouveaux types de patients, le couple et le fœtus, dans certaines techniques reproductives telles la fécondation in vitro et la chirurgie fœtale. Il montre comment l’émergence de ces patients, comme des entités traitables, est liée au développement de ces technologies. Ces pratiques médicales effacent en partie les distinctions entre le naturel et le technique, entre un individu et un autre, et sont accompagnées de dispositifs discursifs spécifiques qui rendent acceptable, voire même naturel ou inévitable le fait de traiter les problèmes de l’enfant ou de l’homme au moyen d’interventions sur le corps de la femme. Cet article est consacré à l’analyse et à la déconstruction de ces dispositifs.

A vivid, sexy, and titillating journey into the steamy underworld of the dime novel. In the scandalous world of pulp fiction in the 1950s and into the 60s, detectives, gangsters, and mad doctors were joined on the racks by bad girls, dissolute youths, drug-crazed beatniks, and other assorted miscreants and misfits. Where romance met with soft porn there was also a surprisingly large population of butch brunettes pursuing and seducing blond femmes. This was an alternate universe of erotic pulp fiction where gals and dolls were exploring the illicit pleasures of lesbian love--much to the delight of a largely male, heterosexual readership. Before the sexual revolution of the 1960s, these books offered a thrilling peek into the deviant underworld of wild passion and scandalous sex. Strange Sisters is a collection of the cover art of these wildly wicked novels. The women who writhe across the covers of books such as Strange Lust ("She Wanted a Woman--Then She Met Another Woman Obsessed by the Same Burning Hunger") and Women's Barracks ("The Frank Autobiography of a French Girl Soldier") sizzle with sexual energy and freedom--in a high-camp defiance of the prudish, conservative 1950s. Bold, kitschy-colorful, and fraught with sexual tension, the covers of Strange Sisters are a siren call to the retro-groovin' man, or woman, in your life.

A series of contemporary theories that have been used to explain homophobia are assessed. Structural, feminist, comparative, gender panic, queer, and socio-historical theories rely on the premises of a diverse set of scholarly disciplines, and in turn, generate their own objects of analysis, whether `homophobia', `heterosexism', or `heteronormativity'. While the current flourishing of gay and lesbian studies has generated important insights into the workings of homophobia, analyses have also tended to be limited and fragmentary. This paper suggests a study of homophobic projects that combines theoretical tools able to recognize experience, discourse, structure, and history.

Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer will give members of these communities hope, insight, and information into body image issues, helping you to accept and to love your body. In addition, scholars, health care professionals, and body image activists will not only learn about queer experiences and identity and how they affect individuals, but will also understand how some of the issues involved affect society as a whole. Dismantling the myth that body image issues affect only heterosexual women, Looking Queer explores body issues based on gender, race, class, age, and disability. Furthermore, this groundbreaking book attests to the struggles, pain, and triumph of queer people in an open and comprehensive manner. More than 60 contributors provide their knowledge and personal experiences in dealing with body image issues exclusive to the gay and transgender communities, including: exploring and breaking down the categories of gender and sexuality that are found in many body image issues finding ways to heal yourself and your community discovering what it means to “look like a dyke” or to “look gay” fearing fat as a sign of femininity determining what race has to do with the gay ideal discussing the stereotyped ”double negative”--being a fat lesbian learning strategies of resistance to societal ideals critiquing ”the culture of desire” within gay men’s communities that emphasizes looks above everything else Revealing new and complex dimensions to body image issues, Looking Queer not only discusses the struggles and hardships of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons, but looks at the processes that can lead to acceptance of oneself. Written by both men and women, the topics and research in Looking Queer offer insight into the lives of people you can relate to, enabling you to learn from their experiences so you, too, can find joy and happiness in accepting your body.

This essay serves as both a response and embellishment of Marilyn Frye's now classic essay " Oppression." It is meant to pick up where this essay left off and to make connections between oppression, as Frye defines it, and the privileges that result from institutional structures. This essay tries to clarify one meaning of privilege that is lost in philosophical discussions of injustice. I develop a distinction between unearned privileges and earned advantages. Clarifying the meaning of privilege as unearned structural advantage makes visible the role white privilege plays in maintaining complex systems of domination such as racism, sexism, heterosexism and classism. Using a critical reading of both Frye and Young's accounts of oppression as a springboard, I develop a definition of privilege as a particular class of unearned advantages. -/- I distinguish my account of privilege from standard legal and philosophical definitions of privilege. The general distinction I make between privileges and advantages rests on three interrelated claims: that benefits granted by privilege are always unearned and conferred systemically to members of dominant social groups; that privileges granted to members of dominant groups solely on the basis of their membership in these groups is never justifiable; and, that privileges have an unconditional value that can be explained not only in terms of immunities, but also in terms of additional benefits

A travers l'étude notamment de la "queer theory" de M. Foucault et de la psychanalyse, de la politique du sadomasochisme et de l'image du hors-la-loi gay chez Proust, Gide et Genet, l'auteur propose une réflexion critique sur l'identité homosexuelle et les dangers du repli communautaire. C'est aussi une introduction aux débats autour des "gays studies" qui, après les USA, se développent en Europe

Regroupant recherches et analyses, témoignages et récits personnels, ce livre rend compte de la discrimination vécue par les lesbiennes. Malgré que le Québec ait adopté une Charte des droits de la personne qui interdit toute discrimination basée sur l'orientation sexuelle, il faut reconnaître que l'adoption de ce principe d'équité n'a pas fait disparaître toute trace d'hétérosexisme dans la société. Les lesbiennes ne bénéficient pas encore d'une égalité juridique formelle, encore moins réelle.

Une sélection d'autoportraits féminins empruntés à toute l'histoire de l'art, de la religieuse anonyme qui glissa son effigie dans la lettrine d'un manuscrit du XIIe siècle à Cindy Sherman et ses photogrammes révélateurs des visions stéréotypées de la femme, en passant par Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Frida Kahlo, Hannah Wilke, etc.

Difficile de remettre en question la domination masculin tellement elle est ancrée dans nos inconscients et accordée à nos attentes. Partant d'une description ethnographique de la société kabyle, Pierre Bourdieu explore les structures symboliques de cet inconscient et rocentrique qui survit chez les hommes et les femmes d'aujourd'hui

During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a significant body of self-images that have no equivalent among the works of their male colleagues. While male artists exalted Woman's otherness in fetishized images, women artists explored their own subjective worlds. The self-images of Claude Cahun, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, Kay Sage and others both internalize and challenge conventions for representing femininity, the female body, and female subjectivity. Many of the representational strategies employed by these pioneers continue to resonate in the work of contemporary women artists. The words "Surrealist" and "surrealism" appear frequently in discussions of such contemporary artists as Louise Bourgeois, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Kiki Smith, Dorothy Cross, Michiko Kon and Paula Santigo. This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the MIT List Visual Art Center, explores specific aspects of the relationship between historic and contemporary work in the context of Surrealism. The contributors re-examine art historical assumptions about gender, identity, and integenerational legacies within modernist and postmodernist frameworks. Questions raised include: how did women in both groups draw from their experiences of gender and sexuality? What do contemporary artistic practices involving the use of body images owe to the earlier examples of both female and male Surrealists? What is the relationship between self-image and self-knowledge. (source: Nielsen Book Data)