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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.

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.

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.

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)

Feminism and Ecological Communities presents a bold and passionate rethinking of the ecofeminist movement. It is one of the first books to acknowledge the importance of postmodern feminist arguments against ecofeminism whilst persuasively preseenting a strong new case for econolocal feminism. Chris J.Cuomo first traces the emergence of ecofeminism from the ecological and feminist movements before clearly discussing the weaknesses of some ecofeminist positions. Exploring the dualisms of nature/culture and masculing/feminine that are the bulwark of many contemporary ecofeminist positions and questioning traditional traditional feminist analyses of gender and caring, Feminism and Ecological Communities asks whether women are essentially closer to nature than men and how we ought to link the oppression of women, people of colour, and other subjugated groups to the degradation of nature. Chris J.Cuomo addresses these key issues by drawing on recent work in feminist ethics as well as teh work of diverse figures such as Aristotle, John Dewey, Donna Haraway adn Maria Lugones. A fascinating feature of the book is the use of the metaphor of the cyborg to highlight the fluidity of the nature/culture distinction and how this can enrich econfeminist ethics and politics. An outstanding new argument for an ecological feminism that links both theory and practice, Feminism and Ecological Communities bravely redraws the ecofeminist map. It will be essential reading for all those interested in gender studies, environmental studies and philosophy.

Histoire bien documentée et inédite des communautés homosexuelles de Montréal. Longtemps victimes de brimades et de préjugés, les gais et lesbiennes sont finalement "sorti.e.s de l'ombre" et ont gagné de belles victoires durant les dernières décennies.

A travers le témoignage de 29 personnes dont 7 enfants et adolescents, une incursion dans le paysage des familles "homoparentales". Bousculant le cadre traditionnel de la famille, ces structures posent, par leur démarche même, des questions sur des sujets aussi essentiels que la filiation, l'adoption, la procréation médicalement assistée, allant bien au-delà de l'homosexualité.

Depuis une quinzaine d'années se sont développées dans l'université américaine ce qu'il est désormais convenu d'appeler les Gay and Lesbian Studies. Il s'agit non seulement de redécouvrir le passé occulté des cultures homosexuelles, mais aussi et surtout de reconsidérer l'histoire et le présent de la sexualité en général et la manière dont chaque société et chaque époque l'organisent et la réglementent. Ces nouvelles études ont très vite essaimé dans le monde anglo-saxon et dans presque toute l'Europe. Tout en étant en France au coeur de nombreuses polémiques, elles restent étrangement peu connues. Le colloque du Centre Georges Pompidou, les 25 et 27 Juin 1997, avait pour objectif de donner la parole à quelques-un.e.s des plus éminent.e.s représentant.e.s nord-américain.e.s de ce champ de pensée afin qu'iels puissent présenter leurs travaux au public français. Il a permis de découvrir non seulement leur richesse et leur diversité mais aussi, le cas échéant, les divergences qui pouvaient exister dans leurs approches. Des chercheureuses français.e.s et européen.nes participaient également à ces journées de discussion, pour engager le dialogue critique avec ces intellectuel.les américain.e.s. Une occasion d'ouvrir la voie à ce que pourrait être, en France, un travail de recherche sur les questions posées par le mouvement gay et lesbien à l'ensemble de la vie politique, culturelle et universitaire.

Dans cet ouvrage essentiel de la théorie queer, Jack Halberstam s’attaque au statut protégé de la masculinité masculine et montre que la masculinité féminine lui offre une alternative distincte depuis plus de deux siècles. Démontrant que la masculinité féminine n’est pas une mauvaise imitation de la virilité, mais une mise en scène vivante et dramatique de genres hybrides et minoritaires, Halberstam catalogue la diversité des expressions de genre chez les femmes masculines, depuis les pratiques pré-lesbiennes du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux performances contemporaines des drag kings.

Dans le sillage de la 4e Conférence mondiale sur les femmes, cet ouvrage réunit des spécialistes de premier plan du genre et du développement qui interrogent les vingt dernières années de travaux dans ce domaine. Visions féministes du développement jette un nouvel éclairage sur des questions clés telles que : * le genre et l'environnement * l'éducation * la population * les droits reproductifs * l'industrialisation * la politique macroéconomique * la pauvreté. Inspiré par les travaux théoriques féministes récents, il réexamine les analyses structurelles antérieures et ouvre la voie à de nouvelles recherches dans ce domaine.

An examination of the social and cultural significance of body art by a major new voice. The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in body art, in which the artist's body is integral to the work of art. With the revoking of NEA funding for such artists as Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and others, public awareness and media coverage of body-oriented performances have increased. Yet the roots of body art extend to the 1960s and before. In this definitive book, Amelia Jones explores body art projects from the 1960s and 1970s and relates their impact to the work of body artists active today, providing a new conceptual framework for defining postmodernism in the visual arts. Jones begins with a discussion of the shifting intellectual terrain of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the work of Ana Mendieta. Moving to an examination of the reception of Jackson Pollock's "performative" acts of painting, she argues that Pollock is a pivotal figure between modernism and postmodernism. The book continues with explorations of Vito Acconci and Hannah Wilke, whose practices exemplify a new kind of performance that arose in the late 1960s, one that represents a dramatic shift in the conception of the artistic subject. Jones then surveys the work of a younger generation of artists -- including Laurie Anderson, Orlan, Maureen Connor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Laura Aguilar, and Bob Flanagan -- whose recent work integrates technology and issues of identity to continue to expand the critique begun in earlier body art projects. Embracing an exhilarating mix of methodologies and perspectives (including feminism, queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory), this rigorous and elegantexamination of body art provides rich historical insight and essential context that rethinks the parameters of postmodern culture.

From the moment intersexuality-the condition of having physical gender markers (genitals, gonads, or chromosomes) that are neither clearly female nor male-is suspected and diagnosed, social institutions are mobilized in order to maintain the two seemingly objective sexual categories. Infants' bodies are altered, and what was "ambiguous" is made "normal." Kessler's interviews with pediatric surgeons and endocrinologists reveal how the intersex condition is normalized for parents and she argues that the way in which intersexuality is managed by the medical and psychological professions displays our culture's beliefs about gender and genitals. Parents of intersexed children are rarely heard from, but in this book they provide another perspective on reasons for genital surgeries and the quality of medical and psychological management. Although physicians educate parents about how to think about their children's condition, Kessler learned from parents of intersexed children that some parents are able to accept atypical genitals. Based on analysis of the medical literature and interview with adults who had received treatment as interesexed children, Kessler proposes new approaches for physicians to use in talking with parents and children. She also evaluates the appearance of a politicized vanguard, many of who are promoting an intersexual identity, who seek to alter the way physicians respond to intersexuality. Kessler explores the possibilities and implications of suspending a commitment to two "natural" genders and addresses gender destabilization issues arising from intersexuality. She thus compels readers to re-think the meaning of gender, genitals, and sexuality.

Les études de Michel Foucault sur la sexualité et son histoire, de même que les premiers travaux de Judith Butler sur la fluidité des postures de genre, ont contribué à l’émergence de la pensée queer, qui récuse le fixisme identitaire sans pour autant rejeter la notion d’identité. Ce courant de pensée a eu des répercussions tant dans le domaine des études féministes que dans celui des études LGBT ou encore des études sur les sexualités qui s’intéressent aux marges de la société hétérosexiste. Au-delà des oppositions binaires du masculin et du féminin ou de l’hétérosexualité et de l’homosexualité, il y a toujours un indécidable, qui résiste à la bipartition, une zone de flou, d’hybride et de poreux. C’est cet indécidable qui force la réflexion, non pas pour le faire entrer dans une catégorie d’opposition binaire, mais pour faire rebondir la pensée. Des textes de Carmen Gill, Ross Higgins, Diane Lamoureux, Marie-José Nadal, Tania Navarro Swain, Paul-André Perron, Robert Schwartzwald et Colette St-Hilaire.

Le savoir est-il l'apanage du sexe masculin? L'auteur, chargée de recherches au CNRS, fait ici la généalogie des mythes qui sexualisent le savoir et donc le pouvoir. Sur un ton polémique et drôle, elle propose un parcours original dans l'histoire de la philosophie et de la littérature, mais aussi dans l'actualité.

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

Biomythographie selon le terme forgé par l'auteure, ce roman autobiographique est le seul texte en prose de cette poétesse américaine lesbienne et figure majeure de l'afroféminisme. Son approche originale des luttes contre les oppressions a participé à fonder la notion d'intersectionnalité. Dans ce texte, elle retrace son parcours et le rôle des femmes qui ont croisé sa route.