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AbstractAbout Positions in Religious Alliance Relationship : " Husband " of a Spirit, " Wife " of a GodThe author develops reflections about " marriage alliance " as used to metaphorically designate a widespread type of relationship between humans and supernatural entities. Her argument is rooted in her analysis of data from shamanistic societies living on hunting in thé Siberian forest. The main purpose of thé shamanistic function is to make thé spirits of wild animais into partners " allied " by marriage, so as to turn hunting into an exchange relationship with them. The human partner, represented by the shaman, stands in the " husband's " position in the alliance relation, the game-giving spirit partner, in that of the " wife ".The Siberian case is stated as a reference for a short comparative survey focused on the orientation of the alliance relationship in different religious Systems. In this perspective, it appears that the alliance relation between a " possessed " person and a deity is conceived of as a wife-to-husband relation, and so is the Alliance with God in Abrahamic religions : it is the human partner who is in the " wife's " position (at either individual or collective level), while the divine partner is in that of the " husband's ".Some typical features associated with these two polar positions are mentioned.Key words : Hamayon, alliance, marriage, husband, wife, shamanism, possession, metaphor, good luck, Siberia
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Trans elders are an emerging population that includes individuals with diverse identities, realities, and life paths. In this literature review, the authors first address this diversity, in particular in regards to one's generation and to the age at which one has begun transition. The authors then discuss trans elders' physical health, with a focus on the specific issues and needs such people can have in regards to health care services, and on the barriers jeopardizing their access to adequate care and services. The isolation and lack of support that many trans elders face is then presented and some of the barriers that exist in accessing social services and age-related care are introduced. The article also offers multiple recommendations for health care and social services providers and concludes with future avenues of research.
Keywords: transidentités, transsexualité, transgenre, vieillissement, soins et services de santé, services sociaux, transidentities, transsexuality, trangender, aging, health care, social services
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The creation at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde of La nef des sorcières, a play comprising texts by seven authors, is recognised as a key moment in the emergence of militant feminist theatre during the 1970s and 1980s. The reception of the show and the published text shows that the attention of the public and critics was directed particularly toward the feminist themes conveyed by the play and the commentary it contained about the workings of patriarchy in women's private lives. However, the objective of the authors and actors was much broader than simple social commentary. It was not their intention to reduce the space of theatre to a mere political platform. Luce Guilbeault, who initiated the project and was involved as director, author and actor, wanted like the others, in addition to stirring discussion, to shake up theatre's sexist foundations, enlarge the space of the collective imaginary, transform the masculinist symbolic order of Québec culture, and open wide audience's horizons of expectations. When her Actrice en folie suffers a loss of memory and tears off her costume at the time she first comes on stage, it is an opening onto an experimental show and the invention of new kinds of theatricality in the feminine. It is a radical interrogation of the canonical practices, codes, rules, languages, and conventions for acting and structuring theatre. These traditions have been functioning for millennia to make possible the aestheticisation of dominant sexist fantasies and ideologies.
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In this study, we address the problem of sexual harassment and abuse amongst Canada's high performance athletes. Research done in Canada and the United Kingdom has shown that sexual harassment and abuse remain serious problems in sport. For example, in 1993, Canadian athletes appeared on national television to talk about their sexual abuse experiences in three popular sports: rowing, volleyball and swimming. These revelations sent shock waves through the Canadian sport system. National sport organizations quickly began to look for ways to address sexual harassment and abuse by creating ways to protect their athletes. Results of this national study clearly indicate that sexual harassment and abuse are major problems for participants in organized sport in Canada. We conclude with an analysis both of why such violence occurs within the context of sport and of its persistance in modern sport.
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What are the reasonable limits of teaching about controversial issues? To answer this question, this article aims to establish a set of law-based principles that may serve as a guide for teaching practice. Drawing on an analysis of relevant Canadian and U.S. jurisprudence and secondary literature, we identified considerations that judges consistently return to when reflecting on the question of the reasonable and responsible exercise of teacher free speech in the classroom. Four principles followed from our analysis: curricular alignment, impartiality, avoidance of foreseeable inflammatory content and age appropriateness.
Keywords: liberté d'expression des enseignant⋅e⋅s, éducation à la citoyenneté, droit de l'éducation, éthique professionnelle en enseignement, présentation de sujets controversés en classe, teacher free speech, education law, professional ethics in teaching, teaching about controversial issues, citizenship education, libertad de expresión de los docentes, derecho de la educación, ética profesional en la enseñanza, abordar temas controvertidos en clase, educación cívica
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Keywords: Mouvement étudiant, sexisme, censure, Révolution tranquille, université
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SummaryThis study focuses on the dramatic shift in the coinage of cultural capital that is taking place. In 1950 high status was signaled by a taste for the fine arts and disdain for popular entertainments, a pattern popularly known as “highbrow snobbery.” The hegemony of highbrow snobbery was largely unexamined until Pierre Bourdieu published La Distinction : Critique social du jugement. In the past several decades researchers have tested Bourdieu's formulation in a number of countries to see its relevance beyond France in the 1960s. They show that cultural capital is increasingly seen as the ability to appreciate the distinctive aesthetic of a wide range of cultural forms including the fine arts but also a range of popular and folk expressions, a pattern called “omnivorousness.” Here we examine the causes of the emergence of omnivorousness, its social location in society and its temporal-geographic distribution across societies. We also assesses the advantages of alternative ways of measuring omnivorousness and its opposite, the many sorts of univorousness that range from isolates near the bottom of society to the highbrow snob.
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AbstractThe research project concerns language socialization among urban immigrant adolescents. A large number of interactions shows that among the factors that play a role in rising to peer social status and in acquiring certain language features, space seems to be important. As well, the subjects identified as leaders seem to have an affirmative and representational function in terrritorilized spaces that do not necessarily correspond to exogene categories, be they administrative, media or popular. I will attempt to determine to what extent and how territories and reference spaces are constructed, and with what characteristics they are associated with respect to language practices and identity building.
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The present study examines the Portuguese right-wing and Hungarian communist regimes' attitudes towards homosexuality and sexual minorities through an analysis of English-language literary works translated and published in Hungary and Portugal between 1939 and 1974. One of its main objectives is to contribute to the scarce body of research on the history of non-normative sexualities by mapping literary works in English that might have been read by the queer community as possible self-help literature in the two countries. Besides the prevailing publishing practices, the modi operandi of the Hungarian and Portuguese censoring apparatuses are compared to see what kind of translated literature with homosexual content was or was not allowed to be published under the two opposing dictatorial regimes and why. The research draws heavily on the book censorship files stored at the National Archives of the Torre do Tombo in Lisbon along with the findings of the Hungarian project English-Language Literature and Censorship (1945-1989) and the project Intercultural Literature in Portugal 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography.
Keywords: Salazar's Portugal, Hungarian People's Republic, censorship, publishing practices, homosexual-themed literature, Portugal de Salazar, République populaire de Hongrie, censure, pratiques éditoriales, littérature à contenu homosexuel