Pisarstwo i masochizm Jana Jakuba Rousseau by Wojciech Siegień

“…The present paper is an attempt at discursive exercises involving the application of modern psychiatric knowledge, treated as a variant of truth-discourse about human sexuality, for the diagnosis of the mental condition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. …”
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POWER, KNOWLEDGE, AND CENSORSHIP IN 19TH-CENTURY RUSSIA by Igor M. Chubarov

“…Quite a compatible situation was raised in the works on sexuality by Foucault. Thus, the main goal of this article is to make a comparative study of papers related to Russian prison and censorship and Foucault methods.…”
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Communicating with Teens about Sex: Facts, Findings, and Suggestions by Kate Fogarty, Carolyn H. Wyatt

“…Wyatt, is one of a series of discussions on understanding teen sexuality. This publication discusses the low percentage of teens who communicate with their parents and provides information about effective communication styles and advice for parents and sexual health educators. …”
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Analysis of the Criticism and Defense of Feminism in Social Discourse: A Case of Patriarchal Protection in Sports by Carolina Vázquez Rodríguez, Carmen Martínez Martínez, Inés Herás, Maite Martín-Aragón Gelabert, M.ª Carmen Terol Cantero

“…Using a thematic analysis, the comments were classified in six subthemes: gender, offense, politics, patriarchal sexuality, context, and sponsor. The subthemes were grouped in three themes: new misogyny, sexist outrage and corporate advocacy. …”
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Examining the Challenges of HIV Positive People With Disabilities in Accessing Medical Services in Rukungiri District: A Case Study of Nyakishenyi Sub-County by Atuheire, Fortunate

“…The study findings on factors that hinder people with disabilities in accessing medical services were; discrimination due to their disabilities, poor assumptions that persons with disabilities are not at risk of contracting HIV and therefore do not require access to HIV prevention, poverty among the people with disabilities, inaccessibility of health services and exclusion of people with disabilities from sexuality education. The study findings on the preventative strategies of HIV among persons living with disabilities were; reduction of stigma and discrimination from persons with disabilities, establishing some programs that can generate income for persons with disabilities, ensuring provision of sexuality education to persons with disabilities, and avoiding poor assumptions that persons with disabilities are not at risk of contracting HIV and therefore do not require access to HIV education. …”
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Stalled!: Transforming Public Restrooms by Joel Sanders

“…Joel Sanders interrogates the intersections of architecture, public space, gender and sexuality with his project for public restrooms Stalled!. …”
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Bordel de bled, bordel au Bled : figures rurales de la prostitution au Maroc by Mustapha Qadéry

“…By examining several recollections, exploring individual stories, personal accounts, as well as historic information available on prostitution in this region, this article seeks to reconstruct unifying themes that allow rethinking its inscription in local social dynamics as well as studies on gender and sexuality.…”
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The Debate on Homosexuality in The Freewoman Journal (1911-12) by Florence Binard

“…If the question of same-sex sexuality was indeed barely mentioned, the openness and frankness of the contributions point out to something far more subversive; it addressed issues that threatened the received « truths » of the time and paved the way to a deconstruction of the binary concepts of sex and gender.…”
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A Literary Interpretation of Blood Symbolism in Ifá Divination Poetry by Oluwabunmi Tope Bernard

“…Using Ricoeur’s hermeneutics theory of interpretation, the findings show that the selected Ifá divination poems present the symbolic interpretations of blood in Ifá corpus as it is entrenched in the Yorùbá psychology, sexuality, religiosity, worldview, identity and kinship. …”
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La fabrique des mères imaginaires dans les séries télévisées françaises (1992-2012) by Sarah Lécossais

“…This paper shows that French TV shows construct a hegemonic mother figure (a caring, loving, listening one…) which has to be analysed in terms of gender, race, sexuality or profession. Indeed heroines are rarely non-white, lesbians or happily unemployed. …”
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Silences and Accents in the Construction of Gender Violence as a Social Problem in Quito by Paz Guarderas Albuja

“…Five different matrices are examined: sexuality, health, human rights; security and disciplinary practices. …”
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Faire parler le « rien » by Marine Gilis

“…How do we find and use archives for a study on sexuality? What should be done in the absence of these archives? …”
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Être ou ne pas être subversives ? by Dominique Bourque

“…The preliminary results of an Internet survey conducted among French Canadian young lesbians indicate, notably, that the majority of the 362 respondents see themselves through the apparatus of sex and sexual difference rather than through the expected de/constructivist perspective, associated with the Postmodern era. …”
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De la cure des âmes à l’évangélisation des corps. Le CLER Amour et Famille : classes dominantes et morale sexuelle by Gauthier Fradois

“…This article gives an account of the practical logics of these activists of Love who contribute to the struggle for the imposition of a legitimate definition of the meaning of sexuality, by analyzing biographical trajectories.…”
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Fetiches do desejo e da morte: sobre a literatura de Valêncio Xavier by Ângela Maria Dias

“…The photos, due to its dialectics between proximity and distance of the referent, have an ambivalent nature and dramatize the fetishism inherent to the commodities and to the sexuality. In this way, the work conceives simultaneously the denouncement of the society of spec tacle and the pleasant connivance with its objects and images.…”
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The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future by Myrto Drizou

“…Using Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House as an example, I show how students are empowered to make meaningful connections between the personal and the political, and how they are encouraged to reflect on their “home” identities, especially with regard to race, class, sexuality, and gender. This text—graphic, raw, and challenging to read—fosters courageous conversations that illustrate what American studies can offer, namely an archive of struggle, a context of representation, and a space of community for our students. …”
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Femmes et usage des gros mots en Tunisie : transgression ou renforcement de l’hétérosexisme ? by Sonya Ben Yahmed

“…The Tunisian dirty words are words with sexual and heterosexist connotation, whose use is both taboo and widespread in Tunisia. …”
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The Reader in It: Henry James’s “Desperate Plagiarism” by Hivren Demir-Atay

“…Henry James, who is often cited as the master of realism, nevertheless expresses his reservation about realist representation of love, passion, sexuality and female characters in his critical writings. …”
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« En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille by Laurent Gaissad

“…They materialize primarily in the distance that separates the world of standards, revealing original biographies often marked by radical transitions from one situation to another in daily life, and from an ethics of secrecy associated with public disorder that may result from these itineraries in terms of “gender” and sexuality.…”
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