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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.

"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

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.

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.

Méthodologie féministe et anthropologie : une alliance possible Après un bref énoncé des principes épistémologiques et éthiques qui sous-tendent la recherche féministe et de la stratégie qui en découle dans la poursuite de projets concrets, l'auteure examine les affinités et apports réciproques entre anthropologie et méthodologie féministe puis souligne les contradictions profondes qui, selon elle, rendent problématique actuellement le développement de la recherche féministe en anthropologie. Elle termine en suggérant quelques pistes à suivre par les anthropologues féministes dans un proche avenir.

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.

Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory offers a clear and accessible introduction to poststructuralist theory, focusing on questions of language, subjectivity and power.

Comment définir une culture au féminin ? Quelles formes peut-elle prendre dans les sciences sociales, la littérature, la philosophie et l’art ? Les recherches présentées dans ce recueil, par leur approche analytique, humoristique, caustique, radicale ou poétique, apparaitront comme la poursuite du même idéal, créer une société dans laquelle « les femmes s’appartiennent totalement, non seulement physiquement, mais symboliquement ».

L'égalité réelle entre hommes et femmes met un terme au modèle millénaire de la complémentarité, (l'homme avec la femme) ou conflictuelle (l'homme contre la femme). Un nouveau modèle s'élabore sous nos yeux : la ressemblance des sexes. Plus qu'une révolution des mœurs, Élisabeth Badinter y voit une véritable mutation et la mise en question de notre identité.

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.