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During the pre-modern Japanese period (1603-1867), kagema were young apprentice kabuki female impersonators (onnagata). They belonged to a specific social class and gender categories. They were also the object of an erotic appreciation comparable to the courtesans of the red-light districts. From the modern period (1868-1945), which corresponds with the westernization of Japanese society, kagema disappeared cause of the assimilation of western sexual norms and gender regime. During the 1920s, the modern categories generated by Western medicine and psychiatry reread the kagema and erected them as symbols of “sexual perversion” (hentai seiyoku), associated with inversion and effeminate. Then, in the early 1930s, the media used the term kagema to refer to contemporary cross-dressed sex workers. This paper seeks to shed light on how kagema have been rewritten and reappropriated in modern Japanese discourses through gender categories and sexual norms imported from the Western Area.
Keywords: Lenoble, Japon, entre-deux-guerres, sexologie, prostitution, Lenoble, Japan, interwar, sexology, prostitution, Lenoble, Japón, entreguerras, sexología, prostitución
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Basé sur des documents originaux et les statuts consulaires de sœurs de Sainte-Catherine de 1339 conservés aux archives municipales de Montpellier, ce mémoire tente d’approfondir la thématique des maisons de repenties à Montpellier entre 1245 et 1498. Cette recherche se focalise avant tout sur la mise en place d’un établissement de récupération sociale des anciennes prostituées par les autorités communales et les relations qu’ont pu avoir ces deux groupes sociaux ainsi que l’implication sociale de l’état de repentie sur les perceptions de la société montpelliéraine. Cette étude traite de l’histoire des repenties en Occident, puis à Montpellier et enfin aborde la vie de la congrégation des repenties de Sainte-Catherine. Ce mémoire aborde aussi les conséquences qu’a pu avoir cette transition sociale sur la vie de …
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«Prostitution » and « trafficking of women » are usually analysed under the angle of violence in studies by francophone feminists who often use exploitation as the only interpretative model. This text questions certain assumptions and premises at the root of a good number of these analyses, and highlights the conceptual problems that they engender, as well as the biases they create. It concludes with an appeal in favour of another analysis of sexual labour and of women migrant workers and proposes a different approach to the issues.
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Three objectives are at the base of this article. First, we will look at Freud's correspondance identifying his conscious representations of women and situating them in the context of his time, particularly with regard to medical doctors and Jewish Austrian bourgeois men. We will then proceed to examine Freud's unconscious representations (or imagos) of women as they can be found in his L'Interprétation des rêves,of which we also present some personal interpretations. Finally, based on hypothesis developed by contemporary feminist psychoanalysts, we will look at how the unconscious representation, which are determined by gender relations, uphold Freud's conscious representations of women and how this can explain their resilience.
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AbstractThe present article is the second to result from a research which the main objective was to understand how Montreal street youth perceive the effects of imprisonment on the construction of their identity. The objective of this article is to analyze more precisely the participants perceptions about their prison experience in the light of Bajoits' (1997, 2000, 2003, 2004) theory on identity construction, the works of Chantraine (2004), Kokoreff (2004), as well as Otero, Poupart and Spielvogel (2004). This qualitative study is based on ten semistructured interviews centered on the prison experience of youth living or having lived on the street for at least six consecutive months.
Keywords: Jeunes de la rue, prison, incarcération, identité, Street youth, prison, incarceration, identity, Jóvenes de la calle, prisión, encarcelamiento, identidad
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This article looks at the māhū, raerae, and trans women in Tahiti (French Polynesia). Based on interviews conducted as part of an ethnographical study, it explores the articulation between gender identity and sexuality. These three categories constitute variations of the feminization process of Polynesians assigned male at birth. The article begins by presenting the three figures and their differences, while insisting on the porosity of the categories. It then argues that the logic of distinction underlies self-identification as “trans”. Secondly, the article analyzes the sexualization of masculine men by māhū/raerae/trans women, and vice versa. It appears that for the interviewees who identify to one of these categories, sexuality with masculine men contributes to the feminization of the self.
Keywords: Durand, identité de genre, Tahiti, transgenre, sexualité, Durand, gender identity, Tahiti, transgender, sexuality, Durand, identidad de género, Tahití, transgénero, sexualidad
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