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Je suis une femme représente ma lutte personnelle contre la féminité, la culture, les croyances spirituelles traditionnelles et la souveraineté politique, écrite à une époque où cette lutte n'était pas terminée. Mon intention initiale était de donner aux femmes autochtones les moyens de prendre à cœur leur propre lutte personnelle pour être féministe autochtone. Les modifications apportées à cette deuxième édition du texte ne modifient pas mon intention initiale. Cela reste ma tentative de présenter la perspective sociologique d'une femme autochtone sur les impacts du colonialisme sur nous, en tant que femmes, et sur moi personnellement.

"Ce livre est une chronique des homosexuels en France, hommes et femmes, depuis 1968. L’homosexualité est un fil rouge qui relie entre eux des phénomènes majeurs : libération sexuelle, féminisme, mutation des modes de vie, lutte contre le sida, pacs… Frédéric Martel évoque les figures emblématiques et les activistes, mais aussi les débats et les combats, tout ce qui a contribué à ce que les « gais » sortent de l’ombre. Plus visibles, mieux acceptés, les homosexuels sont aujourd’hui en quête de reconnaissance." -- Site de l'éditeur

A partir de nombreux témoignages, ce livre dresse un portrait des bisexuels dans leur infinie variété, leur histoire, leur quotidien.

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.

Les chercheuses en études féministes aux Etats-Unis ont publié de nombreux articles sur le féminisme français; pourtant, peu de féministes françaises s'y reconnaissent ou y reconnaissent leur mouvement. Cet article porte sur la disjonction qui existe entre la version américaine du féminisme français et le mouvement dont la pratique et la théorie ont eu un impact sur la politique, la culture, et la société françaises des vingt dernières années. Cet article part du principe que la version américaine n'est pas simplement une interprétation erronée des faits. Bien que je décrive très brièvement le modèle que les militantes et les critiques féministes ont élaboré, ma contribution porte plus sur l'organisation de la connaissance aux Etats-Unis et l'impact de la recherche féministe américaine sur le mouvement français. Dans le modèle américain du féminisme français, les théoriciennes Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, et Luce Irigaray, ainsi que le groupe Psychanalyse et Politique sont pris comme modèles. Le militantisme s'efface devant la théorie, les théories matérialistes devant le post-structuralisme, la dimension sociale et historique devant le discours littéraire et philosophique. Pourquoi en est-il ainsi? Quels a priori politiques se cachent derrière la version américaine du féminisme français? Cet article a pour objectif d'avancer quelques réponses et de soulever plus encore de questions. Ce faisant, j'espère mettre à jour la diversité des engagements politiques conflictuels qui façonnent la recherche intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis et montrer les conséquences variées et pas toujours voulues de celle-ci. Much has been written in U.S. feminist scholarship about "French feminism", but few French feminists recognize themselves or their movement in these studies. This article looks at this disjunctive between the American version of "French feminism" and the movement whose practice and theory had an impact on French politics, culture, and society over the past two decades. The premise of the article is that the disjunctive is not simply a matter of "getting the story wrong". Although I describe (very briefly) the movement that feminist activists and scholars have constructed for themselves, the interest of this paper is more so on the construction of knowledge in the U.S. and the impact of U.S. feminist scholarship on the French movement. In the American construction of "French feminism", theorists Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray, along with the group Psychanalyse et politique, are the significant exemplars. Theory is privileged over activism, poststructuralism over materialist theories, literary and philosophical discourse over the social and historical. Why? What political assumptions are embedded in the U.S. construction of "French feminism'"? This paper intends to offer some answers (and raise many more). In so doing, I hope to make clear the variety of conflicting political agendas that inform U.S. intellectual work and the variety of consequences, not always intended, that this work has had.

In Generations and Geographies, the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. Generations points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance; Geographies calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, diaspora and genocide.Generations and Geographies is framed by theoretical debates in cultural analysis by Griselda Pollock, Mieke Bal, Elisabeth Bronfen and Irit Rogoff, and two historical analyses of representations of the female nude by Rosemary Betterton and Nanette Salomon. Essays on international contemporary art discuss artistic practice by women working in both western and non-western contexts, focusing on themes of the mother, the body, the land and history/memory. The artists discussed include the French performance artist Orlan, the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta and Jenny Saville from Britain, the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuna, Shimada Yoshiko from Japan, the Korean artist Re-Hyun Park and the Korean/Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger from Israel and the American artist Cindy Sherman. British/Zanzibari artist Lubaina Himid provides specially commissioned artists' pages on the theme of history, location and displacement.

Bringing together some of the classic sociological statements and the new sociology of homosexual desire, this book points to new synthetic approaches to queer studies. It aims to productively engage the pioneering work of queer theorists.

Feminism was not born in 1968. Yet the work of three centuries of feminist thinkers has been dismissed, distorted or forgotten. Even the names of many of them remain unfamiliar, and few have so much as a mention in history books. Feminist Theorists demonstrates once and for all that we can no longer be content with received ideas about 'progress', which may explain the world for men, but which fail to make sense of the historical experience of women. It shows too that contemporary women have a rich intellectual tradition on which to draw for stimulus, inspiration and enjoyment.

''Susan Wendell has lived with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) since 1985. In The Rejected Body, she connects her own experience of illness to feminist theory and the literature of disability. The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and the criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine.''

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Inside the Visible presents a gendered reading of more than thirty women artists of vastly different background and experience. The work of important yet previously "invisible" figures is highlighted alongside the work of established artists to create a retheorized interpretation of the art of this century. Structured in terms of recurrent cycles over time, Inside the Visible focuses on three periods (the 1930s and 1940s, the 1960s and 1970s, and the 1990s) that anticipated a wave of political repression, nationalism, and xenophopia, often stimulating artistic production that redefined practice. Illustrated essays document each artist in the collection. In addition, four general essays trace the connections among the artists. These take up such issues as why artistic recognition eluded certain artists and why their work is only just becoming visible today. They also address overlapping themes such as gender and sexuality; the intersection of racial, class, ethnic, sexual, and regional identities; and the nature of the relationship between work and viewer.

Foreword by Margaret Cruikshank Introduction by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron By celebrating the differences among lesbian scholars and attending to the ways in which the field has been shaped by shifting politics and the emergence of queer studies, this collection challenges the limits of lesbian studies while affirming its value. Forty essays arranged in six parts explore the history of lesbian studies as well as its current impact on conceptions of identity and community, teaching, academic disciplines, university practices, and the development of feminist and queer theories. The collection offers stirring personal testimony; multicultural and international perspectives and established and new voices; strategies for integrating lesbian studies into the curriculum; and contributions from lesbians working in libraries, athletic departments, and students services. Throughout, the contributors address the ways in which lesbian studies has transformed and will continue to transform traditional disciplines, practices, and thought.