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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.

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.

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works. The Reader's 90 extracts are designed to introduce the major issues and debates in the field of post-colonial literary studies. This field itself, however, has become so varied that no collection of readings could encompass every voice which is now giving itself the name "post-colonial." The editors, in order to avoid a volume which is simply a critical canon, have selected works representing arguments with which they do not necessarily agree, but rather which above all stimulate discussion, thought and further exploration. Post-colonial "theory" has occurred in all societies into which the imperial force of Europe has intruded, though not always in the official form of theoretical text. Like the description of any other field the term has come to mean many things, but this volume hinges on one incontestable phenomenon: the "historical fact"of colonialism, and the palpable consequences to which this phenomenon gave rise. The topic involves talk about experience of various kinds: migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and reaction to the European influence, and about the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. In compiling this reader, the editors have sought to stimulate people to ask: "How might a genuinely post-colonial literary enterprise proceed?" The fourteen sections include: Issues and Debates; Universality and Difference; Textual Representation and Resistance; Postmodernism and Post-Colonialism; Nationalism; Hybridity; Ethnicity and Indigenity; Feminism and Post-Colonialism; Language; The Body and Performance; History; Place; Education; and Production and Consumption. Contributors include many of the leading post-colonial theorists and critics--such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabba, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha--in addition to a number of the discourse's newer voices. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader will prove an authoritative compilation, representing an invaluable contribution to the study of post-colonial theory and criticism.

Les contributrices abordent les problèmes du mouvement international des femmes, tels que la résolution des conflits; la violence; zones de libre-échange ; l'environnement; culture et identité nationale; santé; les média; droits humains; et l'emploi, en mettant l'accent sur la situation des femmes dans toutes les régions du monde. Destiné aux étudiants en études féministes, en sciences politiques et en études du développement

A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work," work in the underground economy, work in the home, and shift work. With an expanded focus on women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and regions, America's Working Women grounds us in the battles women have fought and the ones they are in the process of winning.

This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. The contributors ring different interests and approaches to bear on theoretical and empirical material from a wide range of sources. The book is divided into four sections: cartographies/identities; sexualised spaces: global/local; sexualised spaces: local/global; sites of resistance. Each section is separately introduced. Beyond the bibliography, an annotated guide to further reading is also provided to help the reader map their own way through the literature.

Ce volume présente un débat entre quatre des plus grandes théoriciennes féministes des États-Unis. Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell et Nancy Fraser discutent de certaines des questions clés auxquelles la théorie féministe est confrontée. Chacune articule sa propre position dans un essai initial, puis répond aux autres dans un essai de suivi, rendant possible une conversation entre ces penseuses féministes influentes. Commencé comme un symposium sur la question du féminisme et du postmodernisme, le volume s'est transformé en une discussion sur des questions plus larges telles que l'utilité du postmodernisme en tant que concept théorique; le rôle de la philosophie dans la critique sociale ; comment le récit historique est le mieux conceptualisé ; le statut du sujet du féminisme ; et les effets politiques des différentes formulations de toutes ces questions.

A travers le regard d'une femme africaine sur ses sœurs occidentales, nos découvrons avec horreur la condition des femmes d'Afrique qui n'a guère changé en dépit des progrès. Qu'il s'agisse du non-accès à l'éducation dont sont encore privées beaucoup de petites filles, de l'excision (mutilation du plaisir chez la femme) ou de al dépendance économique, sociale et culturelle à l'homme, Calixthe l'Africaine dresse un noir tableau des combats qu'il reste à mener. L'autre part du discours à trait à "l'endormissement" de la femme occidentale ; ou plutôt, selon Calixthe, la femme a été endormie par l'homme qui depuis plusieurs années s'est transformé en agneau pour mieux renaître en loup. Calixthe Beyala lance un signal d'alarme à ses "sœurs" ne baissez pas les bras, tout reste à faire ; énormément chez nous en Afrique, beaucoup chez vous en Occident. Ecrit dans le style vif et alerte qui al caractérise, l'ouvrage de Calixthe ne recule pas devant les mots pour se faire entendre des femmes, et certainement, les réveiller. Calixthe Beyala est camerounaise. Ecrivain, elle vit et travaille en France. Mère de deux enfants, elle a la charge de nombreux enfants au Cameroun. Elle a publié plusieurs romans très remarqués dont "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée", premier roman bouleversant en hommage à sa sœur morte à l'âge de 23 ans, symbole de la lutte que doit sans cesse mener la femme africaine, "Le petit prince de Belleville", "Maman a un amant" et "cet automne "Assèze l'Africaine". Le style et le caractère puissant de son œuvre font d'elle une des toutes premières romancières africaines.

Voici la première histoire de l'amour entre les femmes qui, sur cinq siècles, de la Renaissance à nos jours, tienne compte à la fois du regard extérieur des hommes et de l'approche des lesbiennes elles-mêmes. Pour la première fois, aussi, une analyse à long terme est proposée qui dégage une évolution des moeurs, des mentalités et de la place des femmes dans la société. Jusqu'à présent, en effet, l'histoire des femmes occultait l'amour entre femmes, alors que les lesbiennes ont joué un rôle prépondérant dans les mouvements progressistes politiques et artistiques. Unique en son genre par son érudition, son approche pluridisciplinaire, ses mises en perspective originales et la période considérée, cet essai s'impose déjà comme un ouvrage de référence.

In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.

Premier chapitre du Passage du siècle (les grands bilans que le Centre Georges Pompidou proposera en 1996 et 1997), cette exposition renoue avec des expériences décisives comme par exemple "Eros", organisée en 1959 par Marcel Duchamp et André Breton. A travers le titre "Féminin - Masculin, le sexe de l'art" s'exprime un double enjeu : celui de réhabiliter le terme dévalué d'une opposition inscrite dans la tradition des couples hiérarchiques de la pensée occidentale (forme/matière, vérité/mensonge, être/paraître, profondeur/surface, etc.) ; celui de montrer qu'au delà d'un simple sujet-motif artistique, le sexe est partie prenante des processus de l'art lui-même. L'ambition de cette exposition est de montrer, en dehors de toute approche chronologique, comment les productions artistiques du XXe siècle n'ont eu de cesse de venir brouiller les fatalités biologiques, anatomiques et culturelles traditionnellement liées au sexe. Aborder l'art dans la perspective de la différence sexuelle, ce n'est pas mécaniquement opposer un art "masculin" à un art "féminin", mais tenter de donner à voir comment les oeuvres se trouvent traversées par cette question, au-delà du sexe - du genre - des artistes qui les produisent. Féminin - Masculin, le sexe de l'art montrera aussi la coexistence dans ce siècle de deux généalogies artistiques concernant le sexe. L'une, à partir de Picasso, s'inscrit dans la tradition classique de la différence des sexes, conçue comme une opposition dialectique et organique du masculin et du féminin. L'autre, à partir de Marcel Duchamp, inaugure un nouveau type de relations, selon une logique asymétrique, faisant circuler les intensités masculines et féminines sur un mode proliférant qui opère une déterritorialisation des entités anatomiques, identificatoires et formelles. Les artistes de la jeune génération (tant américaine qu'européenne) semblent très sensibles à cette manière de déstabiliser les polarités traditionnelles du masculin et du féminin, mettant en oeuvre de nouvelles configurations éthiques et formelles qui se situent au-delà de la différence sexuelle, et en cela se distinguant en radicalement des positions identitaires des années 70.

Fille d'une esclave violée par un marin anglais à bord d'un vaisseau négrier, Tituba, née à la Barbade, est initiée aux pouvoirs surnaturels par Man Yaya, guérisseuse et faiseuse de sorts. Son mariage avec John Indien l'entraîne à Boston puis au village de Salem, au service du révérend Samuel Parris. Elle est emprisonnée à la suite du procès des sorcières de Salem en 1692.