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Cette thèse explore le leitmotiv de la prostitution dans l’oeuvre de Tennessee Williams et soutient que la plupart des personnages de Williams sont engagés dans une forme de prostitution ou une autre. En effectuant une analyse formaliste des textes de Williams qui illustrent toute forme de prostitution, avec une attention particulière à quatre grandes pièces, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Suddenly Last Summer (1958) et Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), cette présente étude fait valoir que le dramaturge utilise un mode de fiction—le gothique—en lien avec une pratique transgressive—la prostitution—pour relier les classes sociales et troubler les catégories de prostitution. Ce faisant, Williams offre une vision plus représentative et nuancée de la prostitution. Théoriquement, cette thèse repose sur …

AbstractSOCIAL REACTION TO DEVIANCE : AN EXPLORATORY STUDYThe object of this exploratory study is to analyse social reactions to deviance by endeavouring to show some of the mechanisms of these re-actions. To do this, we have isolated deviant behaviour from its situational elements in order to study the fluctuations of reactions according to the nature of the deviance, and according to the categories of those reacting to the deviance.The instrument of measurement is a questionnaire which was administered to a random sample for pre-testing. This sample was drawn from the metropolitan region of Montreal. The data analysis is concerned with the degree of generality, consensus, consistency and contingency of reactions in terms of the nature of the deviant behaviour.The results showed the reactions to be surprisingly general. The regularity of the continuum drawn by the indices of contingency and those of strictly punitive consensus was remarkable.This exploratory study gives interested researchers information on crime-deviance continuums and social reactions to deviance. The continuum of social reactions is clearly defined, and this gives us reason to believe it would be possible to introduce an order of importance in the evaluation of social reactions.

AbstractOver the last two decades academic, political and individual discourse on sex has become more frequent. The discourse on sexuality and its reality are however not synonymous. To apprehend the content of various sources — written documents, audiocassettes and ethnographic observation — is compared. The private correspondence between Fantine, a prostitute and Jeanne, a young journalist, are the starting point. Fantine's letters are compared with those of some of her colleagues written to elected politicians during their recent mobilization in France. The two collections reveal some partly opposing facets. Jeanne, however, in letters sent to her lover, exposes all the dimensions of her life. But the complexity and the paradoxes in her correspondence is echoed by a sort of exhibited coherence in the political framework or exposed to sociologists. Fantine and Jeanne also reveal the plurality of private confidence depending on recipient or recipients. They oblige social science to question the status of proof and to multiply methods so as to attempt to re-construct the puzzle of sex. Thus these written documents are an opportunity to debate on the content and the limits inherent in the various sources used by the social sciences to treat sexuality. The choice of the populations studied (the most often minorities) and the approach used are the basis of a project of knowledge curtailed by the categories of contemporary thought. In face of scientific scattering and dogma, the association of two women with apparently such differing profiles then takes on the value of a real performance.

Prostitution has become an increasingly popular topic within the field of history, due largely to a growing interest in resurrecting the lives and voices of those who were never able to leave their own records. This has become known as social history, or “history from the bottom up,” in which individuals such as peasants, workers, women, and racial minorities take center focus. Subjects such as the prostitute are also ideal candidates for its study, as they were usually female and of extremely low social status. Though these individuals left very few records of their own, they were the subject of many writings by others, primarily in the form of pamphlets, which were often produced for political, moralistic, or entertainment purposes. Such sources are valuable to …

AbstractThe objective of this article is to verify the hypothesis that violence constructs territory. To this end, the mechanisms of territorial construction by violence are described as a function of the dynamics of territorialisation. The structure of the interface combining violence and an appropriate terrestrial space is outlined, and a theoretical diagram used to demonstrate that violence is a vector of territorial construction. Two examples follow that serve to test the viability of the proposed tool. An awareness of these constructions and mechanisms should make it possible for our societies to partially avoid the consequences of the dynamics of territorialisation precipitated by violence.

Keywords: Territoire, violence, territorialisation, humanisme, transdisciplinarité, géosociologie, phénomène, interface humanité / espaces terrestres, Territory, violence, territorialisation, humanism, transdisciplinarity, geosociology, phenomenon, interface humanity / terrestrial spaces