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SummaryBased on the observation of a transformation in the "life entry" model and in conditions of access to adulthood, and complemented by empirical research, this paper proposes an analytical framework of the form today's youth is taking. Taking into account the precariousness of lifestyles of a large part of new young adults, the idea is put forward that youth is undergoing a transformation from social time to social space. A "precarious social space" made up of properties and marked by tensions characterizes the present moment in this process of change, a space within which can be identified six life strategies, that is, a typology of the main ways of coming to terms with the available resources whith this space.
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ABSTRACTThis study examines the emotional reactions of 118 mothers after the disclosure of the sexual assault of their child. After tracing a portrait of these mothers, the study attempts to determine the importance of the psychological symptoms and identify psychosocial factors likely to influence them. Results show that mothers present various configurations of psychological symptoms and that many experience distress exceeding the clinical treshold. The presence of these symptoms is specifically associated to a limited number of psychosocial factors. The discussion highlights the importance of distress experienced by mothers of sexually abused children and the support they need from professional health workers to deal with the situation.
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This essay undertakes a review of national and international law to demonstrate that law is mainly an ideological and variable instrument of the State and of the United Nations, which is a by-product of the states. In this perspective, the author opposes the pragmatical ideology of resistance against the sovereign state to the juridical legitimation and the behaviour of the States who reluctantly have conceded some civil and political rights. Those rights are endangered by the growing bureaucratization of the state, the inflation of the juridical norms and rules, in addition to the permanent repressive characters of the State. The criticism of the contradiction and the variation of the rule of law when it relates to "human rights" is also extended to international law as well as to the international organizations.
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In this article, the author traces the achievements of feminist legal theory by tracing feminist ideas disseminated in majority or unanimous judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada where the issues are of direct relevance to women's lives and where the decision illustrates either a reversal of precedents or an acceptance of new concepts derived from feminist legal theory. The analysis proceeds in two steps. The first one is devoted to the question of gender and a new conception of equality between the sexes made possible by the gradual disappearance of the line separating the parallel worlds of women and men, thereby announcing the end of the « separate spheres » doctrine as well as the discussion centred on « la différence », marked inter alia by simple reciprocity as a measure of equality (« equality with a vengeance »). A second part deals with the relationship between women and society as a whole, and notes that women are becoming both fact-makers and rule-makers. The author concludes that the image of Woman is changing and that women are finally being admitted to the status of full-fledged human beings. There is now another view of gender equality not founded on the patriarchal notion of separate spheres and « la différence» but on the demonstrated reality of women's lives. The achievements of feminist legal theory are fragile, but nonetheless real.
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Because of both its strategic location and symbolic importance (the city of Québec as a metaphor for the entire province), the “Old Capital” represents THE city under siege from Champlain's time to today. It is precisely this strange fate as target and victim but also of impregnable fortress and national heroine that is discussed here. After number 61 of the Cahiers in which we recalled the English attacks of 1628-1629 and of 1690 and 1711, the discussion is now centered on the siege of Québec in 1759, an event that marked the end of New France. Ten chronicles are analyzed as much for their portrayals of Québec as for the light they shed on the behavior of “ordinary” Canadiens as well as that of officers of the militia, the middle-class and colonial authorities. These accounts of 1759 show not only how the arguments of the colony's loss, sacrifice and punishment were woven but also how these views later led to two different interpretations of the conquest: both defeat and a (re)departure.