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Nicole Brossard, Madeleine Gagnon et France Théoret ont eu sans contredit une influence déterminante sur notre littérature. Plus qu’une étude de ces trois poètes, Stratégies du vertige nous propose de suivre un trajet amorcé dans les années 1970, au coeur des débats sur la modernité et sur l’écriture des femmes.

"D'après la mythologie grecque, Ganymède était le plus bel adolescent vivant sur la terre. Zeus, le dieu suprême, étant tombé amoureux du jeune homme, prit la forme d'un aigle pour l'enlever et en faire son compagnon dans le ciel. Le rapt de Ganymède est resté le symbole de l'audace nécessaire à un amour qui défie les règles communes. Quand j'étais étudiant, deux mots étaient synonymes : homosexuel et paria. Aux hommes et aux femmes de ma génération a manqué la possibilité de découvrir, chez des modèles que le monde entier admire, une légitimation de goûts que l'opinion publique réprouve sous l'épithète de "contre nature". J'ai voulu montrer, d'une part que la persécution de l'homosexualité à partir du XIXe siècle s'explique par des raisons exclusivement économiques et politiques, d'autre part que certains des plus grands esprits, des meilleurs poètes et romanciers, compositeurs de musique, peintres et cinéastes de tous les temps, de Sapho à Platon, de Whitman à Cavafy, de Melville à Yourcenar, du Caravage à David, de Mozart à Schubert, d'Eisenstein à Visconti, ont tissé un réseau d'oeuvres qui peuvent servir désormais de culture, c'est-à-dire d'exemple et d'encouragement. Bien mieux que les paternes et hypocrites absolutions prononcées depuis cent ans par les psychiatres et psychanalystes, véritable imposture de notre temps, dévoilée ici dans un sottisier réjouissant. D.F." -- Site de l'éditeur

Un essai sur la répression des femmes dans la société vietnamienne. Le film est centré sur la culture vietnamienne vue au travers de l'histoire de résistance des femmes, la tradition orale, les images encouragées par les medias ainsi que la vie et les regards des femmes vietnamiennes.

Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the 1890s. Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as well as engaging more particular studies of family life from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, Coontz offers a highly original account of the shifting structure and function of American families. Her account challenges standard interpretations of the early hegemony of middle-class privacy and “affective individualism,” pointing to the rich tradition of alternative family behaviors among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups in America, and arguing that even middle-class families went through several transformations in the course of the nineteenth centure. The present dominant family form, grounded in close interpersonal relations and premised on domestic consumption of mass-produced household goods has arisen, Coontz argues, from a long and complex series of changing political and economic conjunctures, as well as from the destruction or incorporation of several alternative family systems. A clear conception of American capitalism’s combined and uneven development is therefore essential if we are to understand the history of the family as a key social and economic unit. Lucid and detailed, The Social Origins of Private Life is likely to become the standard history of its subject.

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.

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.

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but also re-inserts into art history their female contemporaries - women artists such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze.

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.

Préoccupée d'une part par la situation des femmes qui, suite aux bouleversements provoqués par les luttes féministes, ont à vivre sous la pression de messages sociaux contradictoires, intéressée d'autre part par les pratiques sociales qui, dans le contexte actuel de transformations basées sur la rationalisation des budgets et des services, se trouvent confrontées à des visions divergentes quant à la nature et la fonction de l'intervention sociale, Pauteure expose et illustre une approche d'intervention féministe visant la défense des intérêts des femmes et la transformation des rapports sociaux dominants.

Our folk understanding of “work” focuses on those activities you “have to do” to get paid for them. Women's work is correspondingly devalued, for it is either unpaid or limited by the demands of the unpaid work in the home. This understanding also includes a moral force. One should contribute to society by working. This paper shows the restrictiveness of these commonsense understandings and discusses the kinds of work that consequently disappear from view. I focus especially on the work involved in the social construction of daily life and in the maintenance and development of institutions. Finally, I present the rationale for expanding the concept of work to include many activities not previously considered in the folk concept: a keener awareness of the work involved in social constructions serves to dignify the labor and engender respect for the workers who do it.