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Whereas the bond between mother and child, particularly in early childhood, is characterized by the stereotype of the greatest attention to the other—archaic space of care, of constant worry, of almost animal protectiveness—, the bond between daughter and mother is often viewed problematically, and all the more so as the daughter grows up. This paradoxical relationship, at once intimate and distant, stamped with contradictory emotions and marked by a long history that pre-dates the daughter's birth, is supposedly difficult to demarcate. How, on this fragile basis, can the daughter in her turn care for her mother? Can literature be this space of care? By examining the mother-daughter relationship in their writings, Nelly Arcan, Marie Cardinal, Sophie Calle and Hélène Cixous succeed in making the text a paradoxical place of welcome and care for the mother. This article attempts to define this relationship and this place by examining what might constitute a daughter's literary “care” for her mother, one in which a mix of kindness and aversion, hatred and love, and the desire for merger and separation result in a new form of daughter-mother co-creation.
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In early modern Spain, bees inspired admiration for their exemplary sexual life since their supposedly asexual spontaneous generation made them models of chastity within the hive, an idealized masculine commune led by a king bee. However, bee imagery frequently appears in erotic literature and an astonishing number of Spanish texts on prostitution, including two of the most iconic, La Celestina (1499) and La Lozana andaluza (1528), which apply apiary metaphors to a female procuress. This article examines this seeming contradiction to argue that apiary metaphors applied to prostitution dehumanize the prostitute as an exemplary beast in the bestiary tradition.
Keywords: bee, abeja, literature, literatura, prostitución, prostitution, Spain, España, bestiario, bestiary
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ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to describe the process by which adolescent females' deviant and delinquent activities develop. Data have been collected from 123 girls who have received an order from the juvenile court of Montreal between 1992 an 1993. Outcomes show that deviant and delinquent activities of adolescent girls occur in a more ordered and hierarchic sequence, from the childhood to the beginning of the adulthood, than in a random development of fashion. Moreover, analysis suggests that the beginning of adolescence, between 12 and 14 years old, appears to be a critical period when many forms of deviant activities are more likely to occur.
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The purpose of this research project was to gain a better knowledge of juvenile sex offenders in the Montreal area. Do they present differences or similarities with other subjects from studies made in the United States? Can we improve our assessment techniques to better differentiate those who should be treated in a closed setting from those who could benefit from a follow-up in the community? And how does our juvenile justice system deal with this type of offender? In order to find answers to these issues, ten (10) in-depth interviews with personality measures were conducted with juveniles who admitted (or were convicted of) sexual abuse. Moreover, a study of fifty (50) files from the Social Services relating to the same kind of behavior was done in the Montreal area. Our results are similar to other studies made elsewhere : those who where convicted of rape or child molesting committed their first (official) offense at a mean age of 14.5 years and 60 % of their victims were females of an average age of 9. For 38 % of our sample, the sexual offense is part of an heterogenous criminal career. Our personnality measures failed to differentiate between child molesters and rapists. However, on the Jesness Inventory, our ten subjects had high scores on the SM (Social Maladjustment) scale, and on AI (Asocial Index). One other significant finding was that the personnel involved with assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders had to get a better knowledge of the dynamics involved with such offenses to record basic information (victim's age, the exact nature of the behavior and the type of violence involved) and recommend appropriate treatment.
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The comparison between women's and men's discourse on their use of public space reveals substantial differences. In this article, we have analysed the results of research conducted on two urban public spaces in Montreal under two related themes : space appropriation and control over time. It appears that men develop a global vision of these environments in which they play an active role and on which they exercise control. Women imagine what others do in these spaces, without imagining what use they themselves could make of them. The various temporal rationales imposed on women even constrain their dream life.