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In this article, the authors analyze the depiction of queer family building in lesbian- and gay-themed French films. Specifically, their analysis focuses on Vincent Garenq's Comme les autres (2008), a pre-mariage pour tous production that attempts to address the challenges of gay adoption in France. Building from queer anti-normative literature and feminist perspectives of surrogacy, the authors discuss the extent to which Comme les autres, characterized by its focus on an emerging cinematic trope of the “homo normal,” as well as its alignment with (hetero)normative institutions, such as child rearing, the gender binary and “white queer patriarchy,” supports a homonormative politics that privileges the (re)production of the figural child.

This article presents an analysis of a mechanism for the promotion and recruitment of potential candidates for Canadian immigration, namely Destination Canada Forum Mobilité, an essential tool for the national Francophone Immigration Strategy and the vitality and development of Francophones minority communities. The study of this initiative will make it possible to clarify three things: that Destination Canada represents the context of north-north migration; that the event is part of an economic paradigm of migration in search of candidates who can meet the needs of the labor market; and that this promotion and recruitment activity is central to the Francophone immigration project within FMCs.

Research framework: In France, the management of pregnancies rests upon a set of legal measures (health, social insurance, and labour rights) and stabilized medical practices (standard prenatal care). This paper questions the time management of pregnancies and tackles the contradiction between several temporalities. Pregnant women are entrusted with specific tasks and responsibilities for the fetus' sake, this third shift adds up to domestic labour and in many cases to paid labour. Objectives: This paper analyzes how the legal frame and the medical control have ambiguous and unequal effects for pregnant women. Methodology: It draws on interviews and ethnographic observation conducted in the Paris' region from 2014 to 2017. Thirty women were interviewed during their pregnancy, amongst whom 11 were interviewed twice or three times. Hospital care was observed from different places and times: registration, appointments with a midwife or obstetrician, antenatal classes. Results: The management of pregnancy assigns an individualized responsibility to women for guaranteeing the fetus's health. Health care for women can be intensive and rests upon their permanent availability for it. This is made possible by subordinating their professional timetable to health care requirements. Employees seek to minimize the impact of their pregnancy in their workplace by separating medical time and professional time. Conclusions: Access to health care is largely effective and the legislation ensures that all pregnant women get prenatal care, which makes it at the same time an obligation for women. This obligation is more or less constraining depending on women's resources. Measures concerning pregnant workers are not so beneficial as employers often do not abide by them, and employees only partially use them. Middle- or upper-class workers and those on the upper levels of the occupational hierarchy benefit more from these measures than others. Contribution: This paper contributes to the sociology of work-life balance, to the sociology of health and to the sociology of inequalities.

Keywords: maternité, accès aux soins, santé, emploi, conciliation, temporalité, motherhood, access to health care, health, employment, work-life balance, temporality

This research aims to develop and validate a framework of the SMEs' Corporate Social Performance (CSP). In addition to conventional representations of the concept, this framework is divided into three dimensions: normative (principles), organizational (actors) and instrumental (instruments). Our study showed that CSP in SMEs is a process driven by the principles of responsibility and supported by social instruments.

Keywords: Performance Sociétale de l'Entreprise, principes, acteurs, instruments, Corporate Social Performance, principles, actors, instruments, Rendimiento Social de la Empresa, principios, actores, instrumentos

This article analyzes the community reparation program following the recommendations made by the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, the Moroccan Truth Commission, in 2005. The text examines the way international prescriptions about dealing with a violent past, the so-called "transitional justice", influence the local dynamics of elaboration and implementation of the program and how, at the same time, public policy follows paths that precedes it, at its different scales. The article highlights two processes. On the one hand, community reparation connects actors with different resources and positions: activists who have entered policy making, administrations, local authorities, NGOs, donors, implementing agency (Caisse des Dépôts et de Gestion). The Reparation is the subject of multiple investments which produce heterogeneous definitions of the program. On the other hand, community reparation is formulated in terms of governance and implemented in a managerial way: internationalization goes hand in hand with inclusion in a set of reforms carried out without affecting the balances of power. However, the field work reveals the deployment of unexpected politicizations. They operate in the program's funds appropriation, which confirms local leadership or offers the opportunity to deploy them, in a context of stress on resources.

This article présents how was statistically analyzed the 10,816 subscribers to a MOOC on teaching and learning with technology. Who are the learners? Under which conditions do they follow the MOOC? What do they expect? What activities did they have during the MOOC? With what results? We have mobilized different data sources, indicating their construction methods. These multiple sources allow to assert that the participants' profile is characterized by more women than men, and prominence of the age group 45-50 years. Participants are mainly located in France, and are mostly secondary teachers with a master degree. They are usually motivated by a desire to change their teaching practices with technologies for the benefit of their students.

Keywords: MOOC, TICE, EFAN, formation des enseignants, formation continue, MOOC, ICT, EFAN, continuing education, teacher training

If subversion is the questioning of the relevance of a model or a posture, to what extent does the translation of a subversive novel—pilloried by the guardians of the traditional order of things—, fulfill its role by opening up the possibilities of the original, by freeing itself from the translational norms of its time, and by giving reader a chance to apprehend the singularity and universality of the Other? One way is to move away from dualisms informed by the principle of separation/exclusion that lead to cultural homogenisation and over-identification. Translators must choose how to negotiate the decentering that takes place between the source language-culture and the target language-culture, according to their representation of the reader, construed either as open to the universal or, conversely, eager to open up to distant horizons, in a way that nonetheless remains familiar.

Keywords: traduction subversive, transgression, écart, différence, voix, subversive translation, transgression, deviation, difference, voice