Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…by drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners based in higher education in the United Kingdom and Australia. Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. …”
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Trabajo doméstico, cuidados y familias transnacionales en América Latina: reflexiones sobre un campo en construcción by Gioconda Herrera

“…This paper examines the evolution of the study of international migrations from Latin American feminist perspectives. Its goal is to demonstrate that debates in this field have not only gendered our understanding of international migration, but also become strategic sites to rethink other areas such as globalization and family. …”
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Introduction. Normes, silences, pouvoirs : pour une anthropologie critique des “violences fondées sur le genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…In this occasion, by a feminist perspective and through a diversity of fieldwork and approaches, the participants analyzed the dynamics of power that distinguish the definition, the denunciation, the speaking out and the silencing of this violence. …”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…This article proposes to confront both texts and read them in the light of her celebrated feminist essays published in the thirties where she openly rejects the membership of any society or club.…”
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La promesse du bonheur : introduction by Sara Ahmed

“…The work of the queer phenomenologist Sara Ahmed questions the injunctions and identifications produced by affects in order to consider the critical power of feminist, queer and black movements. In the wake of a work on cultural politics of emotions (2004), she lays the fundations of a critic of the thinking of happiness. …”
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A Day in the Life of the American Woman: Construction and Mediation of the “American Woman” in Photographic Essays by Jane Bayly

“…Through a close analysis of the photographs and accompanying texts this article questions to what extent the definition proposed by the book A Day in the Life of the American Woman remains faithful to a “traditional” vision of the American woman, or on the contrary to what extent this definition reflects an empowered and diversified vision of women since the 70s feminist movement. Our findings reveal that although A Day in the Life presents a diversified vision of the modern, American woman, it simultaneously remains faithful to a more stereotypical vision where a woman’s primary goal is to remain a mom.…”
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Réflexion sur les liens entre féminisme et « lesbianisme » : la Maison des femmes de Toulouse by Justine Zeller

“…It’s a matter of taking an interest in the links between feminism and lesbianism by conducting a comparison between the national and local contexts (Toulouse). If the feminist activists (homosexuals and heterosexuals) meet in the Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF), a lesbian separatism begins to emerge in Paris from 1971 and in many more cities during the decade, until the definitive break in 1979. …”
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María Jesús Alvarado Rivera en Buenos Aires: transnacionalidad, ficción sentimental y cultura masiva para un nuevo feminismo by María Vicens

“…This article deals with the years of residence of the Peruvian writer María Jesús Alvarado Rivera in Argentina to analyze how the experience of exile influenced her authorial career, her way of conceiving fiction and her strategies to connect with a mass audience from a popular and feminist perspective. Although the data recovered about this period of her life is scarce, the literary works that frame that transnational experience trace various filiations, both with the Peruvian writers who had settled in fin-de-siècle Buenos Aires, and with the modernization process that the Argentine cultural field went through in the twenties, which give new meaning to those years of migration in a literary key.…”
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“Love and Self-Love”: The Balance between Sympathy and Self-Respect in Louisa May Alcott’s Early Fiction by Asun López-Varela Azcárate

“…By focusing on “Love and Self-Love,” an early short story, the paper highlights one of the major concerns at the time of the emergence of the first proto-feminist movements: the balance between women’s inclination to sympathy for others and their own self-esteem. …”
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La fille en boîte : naissance d’une perversion au Japon by Agnès Giard

“…to him, the topic of the « girl in a box », whose origins can paradoxically be traced back to the speech of a trailblazing feminist, enjoys a tremendous success in the mainstream erotic culture of post-war Japan.…”
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Francoféminisme en Tunisie : pratiques langagières et enjeux institutionnels by Mariem Guellouz, Sélima Kebaïli

“…Based on historical archives and ethnographic fieldwork in Tunisia, the article analyses language ideologies that articulate the practice of the French language and modernity as well as the processes that has participated to shape the institutional and activist feminist field in Tunisia. and proposes the term francofeminism to characterize this process.…”
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Construire des théories queer of color en France by Dawud Bumaye

“…It is in this context of virtual theoretical desert that a group of activists are seeking to produce their own political theory based on their minority and marginal existence. Drawing on feminist, anti-capitalist and decolonial political theories, and analyzing the social relations of race, class, gender and sexuality from the perspective of France’s neo-colonial context, they have created a blog, a number of articles and public interventions that materialize their work. …”
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« Knocking on Mrs Grundy’s door with a bomb of dynamite » : peur(s) des femmes dans quelques New Woman novels des années 1893-1895 by Nathalie Saudo

“…Yet, while they celebrate female bravery in accordance with their feminist purpose, they also examine the biological and moral value of fear, as a form of self-protection against the dangers of married life. …”
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Entre censure politique et domination masculine : représentations des sportives olympiques dans les biopics chinois (1981-2022) by Siyao Lin

“…Even though the Chinese government regularly promotes a positive image of sportswomen in the media, notably in Olympic biopics, it is important not to equate these films with a genuine feminist movement. By analyzing eight Chinese biopics focused on Olympic athletes, this article will first demonstrate how these biopics, blending fiction and reality, glorify the achievements of Olympic athletes. …”
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Family, failure and fatigue in the field by Henni Alava, Megan Robertson

“… Many feminist scholars have experienced receiving critique for what are claimed to be overly narrative, emotional, or insufficiently scholarly pieces of writing. …”
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On writing about illness in Kuwait. A discussion with Shahd Al Shammari by Marion Breteau

“…The author discusses her choice to write in English as well as her theoretical positions, which are strongly rooted in a literary feminist perspective. Given the advocacy nature of the autoethnographic approach, it made sense for her to adopt this methodology. …”
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Kitsch, classes sociales et multiculturalisme dans My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) by Lionel Souquet

“…Combining socio-cultural, ethnic and feminist issues to the question of homosexuality, Frears and Kureishi question the capacity of a society in crisis to accept or simply tolerate all forms of differences. …”
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Fiction ou réalité : Les biographies de Constance Fenimore Woolson by Jeannine Hayat

“…Leon Edel, Henry James’s biographer, supposed she felt an unrequited love for him. New feminist studies assert she was, on the contrary, independent and never asked literary figures for their help. …”
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The Heidelberg Catechism: elements for a theology of care by F. de Lange

“… This article proposes a fresh reading of the Heidelberg Catechism from the perspective of an ethics of care, a new paradigm of doing ethics, strongly influenced by feminist philosophy. In its anthropology, this approach in ethics emphasizes human relationality, mutual dependency and vulnerability. …”
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Legal Identity and 13th-Century English Ireland by Stephen Hewer

“…This article sorts out defensive pleas and petitions from court judgments, and applies decolonial and intersectional-feminist methodologies to the terminology regarding the medieval courts and peoples. …”
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