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This article looks at how gender affects access to healthcare and harm reduction services for women who use drugs and are seeking treatment in Belgium. Unlike many earlier studies, which tend to focus on men's experiences or rely on standard approaches, this research takes a more grounded and context-based perspective. Using grounded theory, the aim is to better understand how women experience addiction, how they make sense of it, and what specific barriers they face when trying to access appropriate support.

Keywords: genre, addiction, accès aux soins, stigmatisation, violences, gender, addiction, access to care, stigma, violence, género, adicción, acceso a la atención sanitaria, estigmatización, violencia

AbstractDrugs, Sex, AIDS and Street Survival The Voice s of Five WomenThrough ethnographie observation of a network of about one hundred drug injectors in a neighborhood of New York City during 1989 and 1990, we examined attitudes expressed about AIDS and HIV-risk réduction. In the core of this paper are the words and expériences of five women who were injecting drugs and earning money through prostitution. Comparable expériences of friends and associâtes, and a wider picture of the context of drug use and sex sales, provide corroborative détails of the events they describe. Overall, a certain common perspective on the dangers and the hard realities of street survival émerges from thèse descriptions — one of striving against the odds, of episodic despair, of solidarity, and of dignity.

In continuity with stereotypes that can be traced back to colonial times, present-day tourism images of Cuba tend to emphasize the sensual nature of this Caribbean destination, highlighting the cheerfulness and amiability of its inhabitants as well as their alleged “hotness” and exuberant sexuality. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Cuba between 2005 and 2016, the article discusses Cuban men's narratives and practices of seduction of foreign tourist women. The focus is on gendered processes of self-definition that reproduce a global image of Cuba as a place charged with sensuality and eroticism while highlighting these men's sexual, loving, and caring abilities. By moving beyond reductive readings of sex tourism and sex work, the article highlights the broader range of competences, sensitivities, and moral attunements that these intimate relationships bring into play, and the way they inform Cuban men's subjectivities, their seduction practices, and their hopes and possibilities to establish long-term relationships with their tourist partners.

Keywords: seduction, sex, romance, care, Cuba, tourism.

AbstractThis study has three objectives: 1) to establish the prevalence of deviant behaviours reported in adolescence and early adulthood by young women who were adjudicated during their adolescence, 2) to identify the developmental pathways of deviant activities of these young women, 3) to evaluate the proportion of adjudicated adolescent females who are facing personal and social difficulties at the beginning of their adulthood. The sample includes 97 young women who have received a court order from the Youth Court of Montreal in 1992-1993. The data comes from self-reported questionnaires filled out by participants on three separate occasions: at 15 years old, at 17 years old and at 23 years old. The results show that, even though some young women were strongly involved in deviant activities during their mid-teens, no trajectory denotes a persistent involvement in acts of violence or crimes against property. However, other difficulties compromise the well-being of these young women. Once reaching adulthood, adjudicated adolescent females are particularly at risk of cumulating adversive situations in which single-parenthood, poverty, low levels of education, domestic violence, and distress juxtapose.

This article invites a reconsideration of the role of adaptation in the development of modern Italian cinema, from the neorealist era to the auteur cinema of the 1960s. While post-war neorealism appears to celebrate the “purity” of a de-dramatized representation of reality, it is far from implying a renunciation of the artifices of screenplay writing. Neorealism is largely based on film adaptations, as evidenced by masterpieces such as Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) or Bicycle Thieves (Ladri da biciclette, De Sica, 1948). Through a comparative analysis of La Terra Trema (Visconti, 1948) and La Parmigiana (Pietrangeli, 1963), we would like to envision Italian modernity as regards the novels: contrary to the principle of fidelity, adaptation challenges the causality of cinematic narrative, leading to the indeterminacy of the modern novel.

Keywords: adaptation, adaptation, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Pietrangeli, Luchino Visconti, Luchino Visconti, Italian neorealism, modernité cinématographique, film modernity, néoréalisme italien

This article analyses child abandonment from a comparative law perspective. Various interpretations given to the juridical notion of abandonment are considered as well as elements of the legal systems of Québec, Ontario and France that relate to measures for the protection of the abandoned child. Three different legal contexts are examined: child protection legislation, parental authority, and declarations of abandonment. Family intervention mechanisms are addressed through a comparison of specific laws in Canada and the education assistance system in France. Deprivation of parental authority as a supplementary measure for child protection is then examined. Finally, our discussion provides a contextual study of measures permitting an abandoned child to be adopted. This analysis demonstrates that in this area of law Québec has a hybrid system, containing mechanisms and interpretations which are drawn from the common law tradition, along with others that are purely civil in nature.