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The wastage of Canadian manpower due to venereal disease (VD) during World War II was an ongoing problem for the Canadian Army. Military authorities took both medical and disciplinary measures in attempt to reduce the number of soldiers that were kept from regular duties while under treatment. The study of the techniques employed to control sexual behaviour and infection places the Canadian Army in a new historical perspective as a modern institution which sought to establish medical surveillance and disciplinary control over soldiers' bodies. This study also explores Canadian soldiers' sexual behaviour overseas, showing their engagement in a broken system of regulated prostitution, and with European women who were coping with war's destabilization and strain by participating in the sex trade. Agents of the Canadian Army overseas extended their disciplinary and surveillance functions from soldiers to their sexual partners. VD rates were low when formations were in combat, but rose to alarming rates when they were out of the line, suggesting that individual agency and sexual choice trumped the efforts of modern discipline.
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After having first situated FGM historically and geographically and after having explained what is involved, this article demonstrates how this practice concerns North America today (Quebec, Canada and the United States). It then attempts to identify the ideologies which underlie FGM and allow them to persevere, as well as to show how they constitute an extreme form of violence towards women. It then examines the actions already undertaken in order to eliminate FGM in North America as well as worldwide. Finally, it discusses the strategies developed by the African women's movement in order that, by the end of the first fifteen years of the Third millennium, Horizon 2015, FGM will have become only an old nightmare.
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This article explores the totemic status of the figures in Guyotat's prostitution montages. In Guyotat's works, the glory of the esclave-putain's tortured body is enhanced by the fact that this poetic material is surrendered to slavery, thereby following the writing's verbal logic that allows it to open to infinite mutations, as well as to all unstable and recurring figures of subjection and subordination. The analysis will show that Guyotat's writing transgresses the taboo of incest, on which relies the very foundation of the human species and of the Symbolic Order. Of this absolute jouissance of the utmost importance, Guyotat claims to make a “chant” that reaches another founding law, one that entails not to give in to the enticing powers of representation: “Thou Shalt Not Make Images.” It is in this Second Commandment that resides the evocative powers of Guyotat's illegible writing.
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The definition of « fetish » and its usage in anthropology. Fetish in psychology and sexology. Fetish in semiotics: a sign; an indexical sign; a metonymical indexical sign generally viewed as a synecdoche and associated with iconic and symbolic elements.
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In a series of medieval narratives in which a newborn child is adopted or abducted by a wild animal to feed and protect, the twists and turns of the adventure culminate in the reuniting of the estranged family, through a process of socialization after a journey through savagery. For some, the challenge of this voyage is access to holiness. In these texts, the topos “WILD ANIMAL SAVES ABANDONED CHILD” stems from two topical situations that it synthesizes. The first refers to stories of which a founding example for Western culture is that of the she-wolf who takes in and nurses Romulus and Remus. The second is the hagiographical account of Saint Eustace’s legend.
Keywords: sauvagerie, Savagery, animalisation, Animalisation, socialisation, Socialization, sainteté, Saintliness, gemellité, Twinning