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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art criticism and art history from a feminist perspective are recent phenomena, emerging only during the last fifteen years. They have, in their short history, moved from a first generation in which "the condition and experience of being female" was emphasized, to a second generation, beginning in the late 1970s, influenced by feminist criticism in other disciplines and offering a more complex critique of both art and culture through an investigation of the production and evaluation of art and the role of the artist. In this survey, we propose, first, to outline the history of feminist art and art history, then to discuss the interrelated themes in each, and, finally, in the concluding and pivotal sections (IV and V), to discuss various feminist art-critical and art-historical methodologies.
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Qualifié à sa parution en 1987 de « roman du troisième œil » par Gloria F. Orenstein, ce livre raconte un moment dans la vie de Jeanne – depuis sa retraite des Appalaches, au sein d’une petite communauté d’esprits nouveaux –, alors que se meurt sa compagne, Noria. Aviatrice, cette dernière sauve des laboratoires les bêtes torturées à des fins de recherches expérimentales. Sur le seuil de sa vie revient son père, le Lion de Bangor, avec qui elle s’était réconciliée. Ce médecin, qui étudie les cellules souches du cancer, lève enfin pour Jeanne l’écrivaine les derniers voiles sur la vie de Noria : sa naissance, son enfance au sein du Ku Klux Klan, ce fils qu’elle a perdu, et cet amour infini que le Lion lui porte, un amour « comme ces ponts miraculeux sur lesquels nous avançons les uns vers les autres. » « Ce dernier volet de la trilogie Comme une enfant de la terre met en scène Noria, une aviatrice qui, telle une chamane, vole à travers le ciel nocturne de l’Amérique du Nord pour livrer au monde un message de salut et un espoir de guérison, et Jeanne, l’écrivaine qui pratique son propre art magique de la guérison : l’art de la littérature. » — GLORIA F. ORENSTEIN
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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.