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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.

Texte d’un manifeste initialement distribué par des personnes marchant aux côtés du contingent d’Act Up à la Gay Pride de New York, 1990.

À la House of Shades, Matt, un philosophe de bar, tente de donner un sens aux vies disparates qui se croisent ici : de Judy qui réserve elle-même et ses plus beaux atouts pour un amant du samedi soir, de Steve le professeur de gym qui redoute une chance. rencontre avec une élève dans cet environnement crépusculaire, et avec Matt elle-même, qui a besoin de ces échanges indirects malgré la sécurité de sa relation avec Rae et son sentiment que ce sanctuaire lesbien est aussi une prison, renforçant la culpabilité et l'éloignement des rues de la ville au-delà. Ailleurs, il y a des femmes comme Marie, prisonnière d'un mariage non désiré et incapable d'admettre sa sexualité, et Cathy, pour qui découvrir qu'elle n'est pas « la seule au monde » est une affirmation de son existence. Avec sa structure et son style innovants, reflétant parfaitement les voix et les expériences des femmes contraintes par la société à vivre en marge, The Microcosm reste aussi puissant aujourd'hui que lors de sa première publication en 1966.

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.

Marta Danylewycz s'intéresse à 2 communautés: les soeurs de Notre-Dame et de la Miséricorde, qui rassemblent près du cinquième de la population religieuse féminine au tournant du siècle.

"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

In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.

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.

Dans cet ouvrage classique, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, l'une des théoriciennes de la culture les plus importantes et les plus influentes travaillant aujourd'hui, analyse la relation entre la langue, les femmes et la culture dans des contextes occidentaux et non occidentaux. Développant une intégration originale de puissantes méthodologies contemporaines - déconstruction, marxisme et féminisme - Spivak tourne ce nouveau modèle sur les grands débats de l'étude de la littérature et de la culture, assurant ainsi que In Other Worlds est devenu un outil précieux pour étudier notre propre monde et celui des autres cultures.

The past decade has seen a wealth of changes in the gay and lesbian movement and a remarkable growth in gay and lesbian studies. In response to this heightened activity Barry D. Adam has updated his 1987 study of the movement to offer a critical reflection on strategies and objectives that have been developed for the protection and welfare of those who love others of their own sex. This revised volume addresses the movement's recovery of momentum in the wake of New Right campaigns and its gains in human rights and domestic partners' legislation in several countries; the impact of AIDS on movement issues and strategies and the renewal of militant tactics through AIDS activism and Queer Nation; internal debates that continually shift the meanings composing homosexual, gay, lesbian, and queer identities and cultures; the proliferation of new movement groups in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa; and new developments in historical scholarship that are enriching our understanding of same-sex bonding in the past. Adam delineates the formation of gay and lesbian movements as truly a world phenomenon, exploring their histories in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, and countries for which very little information about the activities of gay men and lesbians has been made available. In this global picture of the mobilization of homosexuals Adam identifies the critical factors that have given personal and historical subjectivity to desire, that have shaped the faces and territories of homosexual people, and that have generated homophobia and heterosexism. Treating the sociological aspects of the rise of the gay and lesbian movement, Adamalso looks at "new social movements" theory in relation to the gay and lesbian movement and cultural nationalism - whether in the form of cultural feminism or queer nationalism - which he considers an important, perhaps inevitable, moment in the empowerment of inferiorized people.

Femmes de la Rive gauche étudie les contributions à la vie du Paris littéraire entre 1900 et 1940 de grandes Américaines et Anglaises, telles que Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Caresse Crosby, Nancy Cunard, Hilda Doolittle, Janet Flanner, Anaïs Nin, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton… Écrivain.e.s, éditeurices, libraires, journalistes, tenant salon au cœur du Paris culturel, elles ont nourri de leur énergie créatrice originale le grand mouvement de la modernité. Cet essai, qui considère à la fois l’histoire littéraire et la littérature, écrit la face cachée du tissu culturel, explore la richesse d’une écriture que le modernisme a tenté de nier…. « Au lieu d’intersection de la vie et de l’art, au croisement de la mémoire et de l’histoire, à la confluence du mythe et de la biographie… j’ai retrouvé les traces de celles qui ont nourri de leur force et de leur intelligence le grand mouvement culturel moderniste. » S. B.

Matriarcat, maternité et pouvoir des femmes Le matriarcat remis à l'honneur au début des années 70 est un thème privilégié pour la réflexion théorique féministe en anthropologie. En tant que construction intellectuelle, le concept de matriarcat, développé par les évolutionnistes puis par les féministes, met en évidence le discours naturaliste de ces deux groupes et ses effets sur la conceptualisation des rapports de sexe. La discussion du concept de matriarcat est aussi le prétexte à une réflexion sur la maternité et le pouvoir des femmes.