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AbstractThe political and economic changes that occurred in Poland after Berlin wall the fall of drove to the deterioration of women's condition in the public and private spheres. Furthermore, both the socialist heritage and pre-communist patriarchal traditions of the increased women's discrimination within liberal-democracy. At the same time, the outbreak of international exchanges ended Poland's isolation. Consequently, the relations between women and men, frozen by national catholic traditions begin to be renegociated. The project of integration of Poland into the EU makes it a more pressing issue.

AbstractWhen we see the numerous risks that young people face on the street or cause for others, one can forget that the so called « at risk » behaviour are displays of deeper lying issues. While the ideal of individual auto-realization values certain forms of at risk behaviour, one can also discern the existence in our societies an obsession with safety that targets at risk populations. Based on a survey conducted in Montreal with street youth, this article aims to clarify the difference between the meaning attributed by youth to marginality and normality and the political tendency to favour epidemiological and safety oriented approaches toward these populations. It concludes with an analysis of the effects of these approaches in relation to the recognition on the youth street exit process.

Keywords: Jeunes à risque, jeunes de la rue, épidémiologie, sécurité, marginalité, At risk youth, street youth, epidemiology, safety, marginality, Jóvenes en riesgo, jóvenes de la calle, epidemiología, seguridad, marginalidad

AbstractHeeding body language and interpreting the impact of non verbal and countertransference responses in the course of intervention, and more specifically in the psychotherapeutic process, is a practice of varying importance in approaches adopted by caretakers and clinicians of diverse horizons and disciplines. When it comes to street youths or young people with severe difficulties, the way one listens to and reads body language becomes an essential and truly fundamental dimension of one's action and understanding. Indeed, body language concurs to the expression and articulation of various forms of distress and self affirmation in youth, and these patients often stir up intense reactions in clinicians involved with them. Consequently, close teamwork and attention to body reactions are considered as essential means to keep one's own vitality and psychic integrity. Questioning and interpreting body language, one's own and the other's, should be at the core of clinical intervention when confronted with youths living in precarious situations or afflicted with addiction.

ABSTRACTThe RMI (basic income for insertion) brings together several actors who play antagonistic roles in a variety of settings. In exchange for a basic income, RMI recipients have to act in the play of work. Their commitment is judged by professionals, bureaucrats and elected officials, who themselves are acting in different plays, those of social work, social policy, and local politics. The contradictions between the interests and the principles of the different actors lead to absurd situations in which the claimants are the major victims. This article describes the settings in which the plays unfold and characterises the roles, from the perspective of the recipients. This stance reveals the different ways in which RMI claimants may act in the play of work, as well as the distance between their concerns and those of other actors. In the end, the issue of work seriously constrains all actors, and is an insurmountable obstacle to communication, mutual knowledge and shared understandings.

SummaryThis paper sets out to give an account of a number of sociological issues which are raised by triadic groups in relationships of love. A typology can be constructed on the basis of cinematographic representations. The aim is to demonstrate, by means of relationships whch may at times be marginal, that paradigmatic questions on social links are raised. The object under study makes the discussion of sociological approaches to issues such as the passage from desire-oriented sexuality to one structured on the notion of identity from the 1970s and the 1990s possible.

Respect for human dignity in matters of religious freedom ebbs and flows between its quality as a founding principle of such freedom and that of a limit thereto. The issue of dignity sharply underscores the problem raised by the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in academic institutions. It permeates all legal reasoning relevant to the protection of the human being and necessarily requires a reconciliation of the rights and freedoms that such dignity legitimatizes. Among others, freedom of religion, as an essential element of freedom of opinion extending to the freedom to manifest and practice one's faith, may be invoked in the name of human dignity. Yet, the externalization of religious convictions must not cause prejudice to public order in general and especially to the internal order of academic institutions. As such, the wearing of the Islamic headscarf within these institutions should be tolerated insofar as this does not constitute a « prejudice to the dignity (...) of the student or other members of the educational community » ( Ruling handed down by the Conseil d'État, November 27, 1989, on the wearing of religious symbols). The exercising of religious freedom centres squarely — from within the principle establishing it — on a limit that cannot be evaluated on the basis of subjective considerations. If the very concept of respect for human dignity refers to an absolute and intangible value, then its individualization leaves the door wide open to all relative and evolving interpretations.

SummaryRupturing with traditional forms of insertion, Montréal street youths have, in a precarious manner, began to use the urban socio-spatial margin as a site of identity recomposition. This socio-spatial margin is presented as a geographical organization structuring the practices of the appropriation of place. The author offers a theoretical understanding of the link unifying the identity process and space. It is on the basis of the key-concepts transitional space and geographical trajectory that it is possible to identify the geo-social route taken by street youths. As such, in order to assess the potential for the marginalized socialization of street youths, it is important to consider the renewal efforts underway in east-central Montréal.

Keywords: jeunes de la rue, socialisation marginalisée, espace transitionnel, identité, représentation topologique de l'espace, trajectoire géographique, revitalisation urbaine, street youth, marginalized socialization, transitional space, identity, topological representation of space, geographical trajectory, urban renewal, jóvenes de la calle, socialización marginalizada, espacio transicional, identidad, representación topológica del espacio, trayectoria geográfica, revitalización urbana

This article explores erotic dance both as a form of labour in the sexual service sector and in terms of the consumption of objectified dancers by clients. An empirical research undertaken with twenty-four erotic dancers reveals that dancers are less affected by the consumptive gaze of clients then by the disdain of customers who reproduce the dominant moralization of their work.

Keywords: danse érotique, travail, dynamique érotique, stigmatisation, morale dominante, erotic dance, work, erotic exchanges, stigmatization, dominant morality, danza erótica, trabajo, dinámica erótica, estigmatización, moral dominante