Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song de Melvin Van Peebles (1971) : exégèse d’un film militant by Delphine Letort

“…Not only did it support the emergence of black cinema by opening up filmmaking to black crews, but it also broached taboo subjects while depicting black sexuality (miscegenation) and police brutality. Melvin Van Peebles proposed a new heroic figure through the character of Sweetback, whose hypersexuality was to become a mercantile asset in Hollywood blaxploitation films. …”
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La masculinité hégémonique au crible de l’âge by Ingrid Voléry, Simona Tersigni

“…We particularly studied the end of childhood, the beginning of the time during which bodies are transformed and forced into the numerous classifications (of sex, sexuality, age) with which they have been associated since the XVIIIth century. …”
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Mariage, littérature courtoise, et structure du désir au XIIème siècle by Cristina Álvares

“…Courtly songs and romances are thought of as attempts of building new models for the relationship between men and women and a new ethics of the sexual difference.In short I say that the variety of ethical and esthetical choices explored by medieval romances concerning the connexions between desire, marriage, and sublimation strongly challenges the thesis of  Denis de Rougemont about the adulterous tendency of Western love and the Manichaean background of fin’amors, arguing that the views on sexuality offered by Gratien corroborate the Incarnation-tinged love ethics of marital romances.…”
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Co-Formations : des spatialités de résistance décoloniales chez les lesbiennes « of color » en France by Paola Bacchetta

“…This article argues that lesbians “of color” in France are creating new decolonial subjectivities and resistant practices, yet these remain unintelligible in the dominant grid of intelligibility because the grid can not account for the inseparability of gender, sexuality, “race”-racism, class, slavery and postslavery, colonialism and postcoloniality.  …”
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Les politiques straight du préservatif : VIH, pornographie et technologies du genre by Kira Ribeiro

“…Bisexual and « shemale » porn productions feature specific uses of condoms that give us an insight into HIV politics and sexual politics within the pornographic industry. …”
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Les militantes anarchistes individualistes : des femmes libres à la Belle Époque by Anne Steiner

“…In the early years of the twentieth century, there were women who struggled for the right to free sexuality, spreading advice and methods for voluntary birth limitation; they thought about new methods of education, refused marriage and monogamy, and experimented with communal living. …”
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Queeritude décoloniale : quels enjeux, quelles possibilités ? by Sandeep Bakshi

“…Focusing on South Asia as the geographical location that is traditionally associated with the repression of all forms of sexuality and simultaneously as the site of orientalised fictions of (homo)sexual promise, the essay attempts to borrow from insights of two established fields of critical inquiry, i.e., decolonial studies and queer theory. …”
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L’approche écologique dans les théories de l’apprentissage : une perspective de recherche concernant le « sujet-apprenant » by Fadi El Hage, Christian Reynaud

“…Lastly, we present examples of research studies which operationalize the concept of “learning-subject” within the frameworks of educations to sexuality, health, environment and citizenship.…”
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…The painter thus expressed the “repressed” of Victorian society—such as unorthodox forms of sexuality or dionysiac practices—thanks to the reutilisation of antique artefacts.…”
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Frank Capra and Elia Kazan, American outsiders by Yves Carlet

“…It shows that they most diverged over issues of sexuality and the later rediscovery of their ethnic roots.…”
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La légende Caravage. Vie et œuvre de l’artiste, entre fantasmes et réalités by Natacha Aprile

“…But, as far his homosexuality is concerned, information is missing. His sexuality is still perceived as rumors, widespread by his rivals. …”
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L’opéra, miroir des sociétés européennes by Clémence Schupp

“…During the first half of the 20th century a discussion about the traditional norms of gender and sexuality evolved in the West. Are the compositions of the composers, designated as the “moderns”, influenced by this discussion? …”
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Social issues in children picturebook apps and their reception by the parents of children in early education by Małgorzata Cackowska, Michał Zając

“…As the object of interest 4 picturebook apps were chosen, which in different ways present topics connected with social issues (exclusion, sexuality, “otherness”). A selected sample of pre-school children parents were presented with the apps and then interviewed (qualitative research) in order to collect their opinions regarding both the apps and the topics raised in their content. …”
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Seductive Snakes and Asexual Angels: Queer Undercurrents in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Desert Sands” by H.J.E. Champion

“…This article proposes a palimpsestic reading of the short story, one which attempts to underline the queer nature of the relationship between the muses Eos and Vespasia and goes on to pose questions about gender roles, deviant sexuality and transgression as related to women in the nineteenth century.…”
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Wyznania, Rousseau i dyskurs edukacyjny – zarys badań w perspektywie (post)foucaultowskiej by Helena Ostrowicka

“…Part one, based on Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collége de France and “The History of Sexuality”, contains definitions of the key concepts: “the regime of truth” and “the regime of confession”. …”
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Les différentes versions de la « découverte » du clitoris par Helen O’Connell (1998-2005) by Alessandra Cencin

“…The analysis of narratives circulating in different contexts of knowledge production illuminates a (re-) signification of the clitoris, and by extension of female sexuality, at the turn of the twenty-first century.…”
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Corps, couleur et sexualité : plaçage et quarteronnes à la Nouvelle-Orléans au xixe siècle by Nathalie Dessens

“…It was always a symbol of sexuality, exoticism, and sin. The question of the representation of the body in slave societies offers an unlimited source of discussion. …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…In 1987, I traveled with a copy of Duncan’s The Opening of the Field, and while I could not fully comprehend the poems, the book nevertheless offered me a model – for better and for worse – for sublimating my sexuality during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. …”
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Filles victimes, filles vicieuses, filles dangereuses by Hélène Duffuler-Vialle

“…The mobilized victim discourse serves only as a pretext for framing the sexuality of young girls and women more broadly.…”
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L’homonationalisme n’est-il que homo ? by Noureddine Noukhkhaly

“…Firstly, I document the deployment of homonationalist logics and their extension beyond questions of sexuality. To do this, I look back at its conceptualisation, reception and translation in the French context. …”
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