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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.

Feminism has been a major force in the reshaping of recent art. The women's movement has given new confidence to women who work in the visual arts; it has opened up new areas for art to deal with and challenged existing systems of values and imagery in the arts. In their comprehensive introduction, Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock provide a richly illustrated history of the British women's art movement, covering the major events and debates in feminist art practice which have taken place over the last fifteen years. They also examine the trends, the conflicts and the new directions of the 1980s in which issues of race, as well as gender, have necessarily become prominent. Griselda Pollock goes on to explore the place of feminist art in the context of post-modern culture, arguing that feminism is one of the most important and radical interventions in both modernism and post-modernism. --back cover.

Entre l’écriture rassemble sept textes qui, sur une dizaine d’années, de 1975 à 1984, ont posé la question de l’« écriture féminine » : réflexion sur un des points les plus controversés des nouveaux féminismes. Tout en poursuivant une critique aiguë et gaie de l’écriture au masculin, et en donnant parallèlement une œuvre de fiction abondante, Hélène Cixous explore, depuis La Venue à l’écriture, l’espace où s’affirme de la différence. Écrire n’est jamais neutre, le geste, le texte sont sexués : « J’écris-femme. Quelle différence ? » C’est la question que tous ces textes relance, d’une langue à l’autre, d’un sexe à l’autre, de l’art de peindre à l’art d’écrire. La venue à l’écriture.

Ils sont tous là, si familiers... et pourtant étrangement pervertis. Barbe-Bleue, le petit Chaperon rouge, la Belle et la Bête, le loup-garou, Blanche-Neige... chargés de violence et d'un érotisme gothique, parés d'une morale différente et d'une beauté nouvelle. Attention, les loups sont parmi nous, mais aussi en nous, prêts à bondir...

Essay in a catalogue for an exhibition that is considered a key survey of how Black art was inspired or affected by the civil rights movement.

Arraisonner quelqu'un, c’est en vieux français tenter de le persuader, argumenter pour lui faire entendre raison. En termes de marine et de police sanitaire, arraisonner un navire, c'est l'interpeller, interrompre sa route pour le contrôler. Ainsi, c'est de la double face, matérielle et mentale, du contrôle et de la manipulation des femmes que traite ce livre collectif. Par l'analyse de sociétés très diverses, anciennes et modernes, comme par la critique des discours scientifiques, les auteurs — ethnologues, sociologues, linguistes – éclairent avec rigueur et imagination théoriques deux domaines encore peu explorés de la problématique des sexes : 1) L’élaboration sociale (politique) de la sexualité et la manipulation des mécanismes de la reproduction — dont l'exposé dément les explications naturalistes ; 2) Les conditions socio-sexuées de la connaissance, les effets sur la conscience de l’oppression matérielle subie et exercée — dont l'analyse exclut toute explication idéaliste. Si les deux sexes sont socialement construits, ce n'est pas de façon symétrique. Objets de raisonnements réducteurs et réduites dans leur corps et dans leur raison, soumises à persuasion ou raisonnées de force, inspectées, contrôlées dans leur tête et dans leur ventre tel un navire sa cargaison, son état sanitaire, son port d'attache : ainsi sont-elles créées « femmes » dans de multiples sociétés. Ainsi s'exerce l'arraisonnement des femmes.

Recent trends in feminist research indicate a growing interest in the impact of Native women on westward expansion and imperialism. The author suggests that while early European contacts affected the status of women negatively, the views of Native women were seldom recorded during these early contact periods. Recent studies have examined the status and changing roles of Native women from the viewpoints of contemporary Native women. The diversity of their opinions continues to be a part of the contemporary debate on the resilience and resourcefulness of Native women in the past.

Etude socio-historique de la condition des femmes noires aux Etats-Unis; aspect particulier de l'esclavage des femmes noires; persistance des problèmes après l'abolition de l'esclavage.

For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preeminent critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said consider the full range of postmodern cultural production, from the writing of John Cage, to Cindy Sherman's film stills, to Barbara Kruger's collages. With a redesigned cover and a new afterword that situates the book in relation to contemporary criticism, The Anti-Aesthetic provides a strong introduction for newcomers and a point of reference for those already engaged in discussions of postmodern art, culture, and criticism. Includes a new afterword by Hal Foster and 12 black and white photographs.

Politics of Reality includes nine essays that examine sexism, the exploitation of women, the gay rights movement and other topics from a feminist perspective. The essays "The Problem That Has No Name" and "A Note On Anger" have been translated into Spanish by Maria Lugones for circulation in la Asociacion Argentina de Mujeres en Filosofia.

Le volume 1 (212 p.) comprend des tracts, documents internes, manifestes et lettres diffusées par les deux groupes entre 1969 et 1975, de même qu'un aperçu de la couverture de presse dont ils bénéficièrent à l'époque. Le volume 2 (377 p.) reprend la collection complète du journal ##Québécoises deboutte## publié entre 1972 et 1975, par le Centre des femmes; on y a ajouté des tables rondes.

Sous le regard de l'Autre. Par l'auteure d'Histoire et linguistique (Colin, 1973) et d'une étude sur l'écriture juive (Le Sorbier, 1983), un récit dans lequel ce professeur d'université française, d'origine judéo-russe, qui enseigna à Montréal, Laval et Sherbrooke relate, pour le bénéfice de ses étudiants, l'histoire de sa découverte du Québec entre 1974 et 1981. Régine Robin, de formation marxiste, manifeste une attention particulière aux luttes ouvrières (grèves, etc.), politiques, idéologiques. L'éditeur parle avec justesse d'un livre d'émigrante sur l'exil, la langue et la vie d'ici. Composition en mosaïque. Inventaires, comparaisons, fragments, altérités.

"This book is a detailed study of the powerful and innovative role women artists played in the development and expansion of performance art. This hybrid art form, which combines the visual arts with ingredients drawn from experimental dance, theater, music, and poetry, emerged in the late 1960's at the same time as the women's movement. Many women artists turned to performance art in order to translate and capture visually the concerns, demands and visions of the women's movement; thus women led the way in performance art's explorations of autobiography, ritual, mass spectacle and the creation of characters and personae. The Amazing Decade, edited by Moira Roth, with an introduction by Mary Jan Jacob, culls the best from women's performance history, highlighting pivotal works, chronicling changes and projecting future directions: the book contains a major essay by Roth on the history and character of women's performance art; individual profiles on thirty-seven artists and collectives; an extensive bibliography; and a year-by-year chronology from 1956 onward in which women's performance art is set in the context of history and the women's movement. Profusely illustrated, The Amazing Decade is an indispensable reference book and an invaluable teaching tool"--

Catalogue de l'exposition Art et féminisme qui eut lieu en 1982 au Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (MAC).

Professeure de trente ans, mariée à un cadre, mère de deux enfants, elle habite un appartement agréable. Pourtant, c'est une femme gelée. C'est-à-dire que, comme des milliers d'autres femmes, elle a senti l'élan, la curiosité, toute une force heureuse présente en elle se figer au fil des jours entre les courses, le dîner à préparer, le bain des enfants, son travail d'enseignante.

Catalogue for the exhibition Issue: social strategies by women artists, which took place in 1980 at the ICA, in London UK. Lucy Lippard, the exhibition’s organiser, described this as ‘the first establishment-approved women’s show in London’.36 She conceived it as ‘a framework for a transatlantic and cross-cultural dialogue’ about feminist art practice, and responses to various issues including ecology, unemployment, war and violence against women. The exhibition included many American women artists, including: Ariadne: A Social Art Network (Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz), Candace Hill-Montgomery, Jenny Holzer, Maria Karras, Mary Kelly, Margia Kramer, Beverly Naidus, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Bonnie Sherk, Nancy Spero, May Stevens and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Kelly, an American artist resident in England for many years, sensed that ‘in most of the work by American artists ... any emphasis on the “personal” appeared to detract from what they would consider “wider social issues”’.37 In this she distinguished it from European feminist work in which ‘the social and the psychic haven't been seen as necessarily antagonistic or contradictory’.