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Nicole Brossard compte parmi les créatrices féministes les plus importantes du Québec contemporain. Née en 1943, elle a publié une trentaine de recueils de poésie, neuf romans et des proses diverses. Elle a remporté les plus grands prix littéraires du Canada, dont le prix Athanase-David, le prix du Gouverneur général, le Grand Prix de Poésie du Festival international de Trois-Rivières et, en 2003, le prix W. O. Mitchell. Traduits en plusieurs langues, repris dans des anthologies et étudiés par les universitaires, ses textes ont inspiré de nombreuses femmes du Québec et d’ailleurs.

Queer theory has been criticized for its textual focus and lack of attention to the structural and to everyday social practices. This article is part of a wider attempt to draw on the different strengths and insights of queer theory and qualitative social sciences. I identify areas of intersection between them which suggest potential ways of developing a queer sociology. The article considers the negotiation of gender and sexual identity categories at the level of individual butch and femme identity narratives. The concept of interpretative repertoires is used to theorize the ways in which lesbians are both positioned by and actively negotiate particular discourses. I am interested in the spatial aspects of the negotiation and contestation of identities and the article examines the ways in which particular interpretative repertoires produce butch and femme metaphorical and material spaces. The article draws on a concept of space as fluid, contested in meaning and created through social interactions. The achievement of lesbian visibility is examined as a strategic intervention in the establishment of subcultural space in which lesbian genders may be performed and read in specifically lesbian ways. Butch and femme aesthetics are examined as tactics in resisting heterosexual space and demanding lesbian presence.

La question qui m’a été adressée -comment se manifeste ton engagement féministe dans tes recherches et dans tes actions? -, m’interpelle sur trois fronts puisque je suis féministe, que je milite depuis plusieurs années et que je fais partie de la classe privilégiée des universitaires. Étudiante au doctorat en sociologie, je travaille actuellement sur la Marche mondiale des femmes en tant que processus de mobilisation collective sexué (D. Kergoat, 1992). Processus dont je suis partie prenante et au sein duquel j’ai eu l’occasion d’effectuer une immersion particulière au cours de l’année 2000, en participant à titre d’étudiante – stagiaire à l’équipe d’organisation et de coordination au niveau international. Et à toutes ces choses, correspond un même préalable dans mon parcours : l’expérience de l’oppression patriarcale.

The part anger plays in motivating political action is frequently noted, but less is said about ways in which anger continues to be a part of how people do politics. This article critically assesses approaches to emotions that emphasize managing anger in accordance with ‘feeling rules’. It reflects on the utility of Marxist notions of conflict as the engine of change for the understanding of how anger operates in political life. This involves understanding the ambivalence of anger and its operation within particular power relations. Shifting sets of conventions have had some continuity in discouraging women in Western nations (particularly white and middle-class women) from showing anger. But clearly, women do get angry and feminists have drawn on anger in acting politically. New Zealand feminist writings from the ‘second wave’ are taken as illustrative of the common difficulties Western feminists faced in dealing with anger. These difficulties were due to trying to juggle social conventions about femininity, the political ideal of sisterhood, and the realities of dealing with other women in often new and experimental political processes. Anger could be personalized and hurtful, but in certain cases its expression was constructive in producing more respectful relations. Exploring these cases makes it clear how anger produces, and is produced by, relations with others.

Cette publication aborde les conquêtes passées et en cours pour l’accès au pouvoir des femmes. *** FéminÉtudes est une revue étudiante, féministe et multidisciplinaire. La revue est née en 1995 de l’initiative d’étudiantes féministes dans l’intérêt de partager leurs recherches et de créer un groupe affinitaire. La revue est dirigée par des collectifs de rédaction bénévoles et autogérés, et soutenue par l’Institut de Recherches en Études Féministes (IREF) de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Au fil des ans, FéminÉtudes a réussi à se bâtir une réputation et une légitimité dans le champ de la recherche en études féministes, tout en offrant une tribune au travaux et aux réflexions de dizaines d’étudiant.e.s. Au-delà de la recherche, c’est également pour l’avancement des luttes féministes que FéminÉtudes souhaite continuer à grandir.

Un modèle d'identité butch contemporaine a été construit à partir de l'analyse d'une série d'entretiens semi-structurés avec des femmes identifiées comme butch qui ont décrit leur genre en relation avec leurs propres expériences et croyances. Le processus analytique impliquait une approche théorique fondée (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Les résultats de l'étude décrivent comment les femmes identifiées comme butch conceptualisent leur identité de genre et comment cela affecte leurs relations sociales au sein des communautés lesbiennes et hétérosexuelles. La catégorie centrale de ce modèle (c.-à-d. Une quête d'authenticité) définit l'identité butch comme impliquant un processus continu de négociation entre un sens essentiel du genre lesbien et des exigences de présentation du genre qui sont comprises en relation avec la signification et la signification des genres à travers les contextes sociaux. . (Enregistrement de la base de données PsycINFO (c) 2019 APA, tous droits réservés)

The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term “social provisioning” to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of caring and unpaid labor as fundamental economic activities; use of well-being as a measure of economic success; analysis of economic, political, and social processes and power relations; inclusion of ethical goals and values as an intrinsic part of the analysis; and interrogation of differences by class, race-ethnicity, and other factors. The paper then provides brief illustrations of the use of this methodology in analyses of US welfare reform, gender and development, and feminist ecological economics.

In this article I explore how organizational processes link to certain emotional responses, as a way of investigating more fully the role emotions play in social movements. Through the construction of a case study of a feminist group, the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women (NYC NOW), I analyze how certain emotions, such as anger, alienation, hopelessness and frustration, are redefined within an organizational context. I find that consciousness-raising serves as the organizational process that helps transform personal emotions into a collectively defined sense of injustice. This transformation has the potential of creating actors dedicated to chapter activism.

In this article, we examine how interpersonal emotion work in a transgender support group and motivational framing of transgender social movement organizations together constructed favorable conditions for emotional resonance. We define emotional resonance as the emotional harmony and/or disjuncture between collective action frames and the emotional lives of potential recruits. Data derive from fieldwork, interviews, online e-mail lists and forums, community publications, activist speeches, and social movement organizations' recruitment appeals. Transgendered people joined support groups hoping to find relief from shame, fear, powerlessness, alienation, and inauthenticity. Although group members' emotion work partly accomplished such relief, it was hindered by identity conflicts and the temporal bounds of the meetings. Transgender activists and nascent social movement organizations, however, used motivational framing to promise targeted recruits a more permanent emotional resolution—one which could draw them into the movement. Our analysis moves transgender scholarship beyond issues of identity and moves framing theory beyond an almost exclusive concern with cognitive processes.