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In the context of recent critiques of Women’s and Gender Studies’ (WGS) institutionalization within the academy, this article foregrounds the role that a transdisciplinary and critical womanist legal studies may play in addressing some of the most significant concerns. It discusses the contours of a research approach, building on previous work in WGS as it intersects with critical legal scholarship from other locations in the academy with similar goals, purposes, and commitments to social justice. It also assesses the extent to which legal studies are evidenced in current published works in WGS journals and emphasizes how an increased emphasis on such scholarship permits researchers to usefully explore significant concerns in the field, including the operation of power and privilege, possible interventions in dominant cultural discourses, and legal constructions of intersecting roles of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Further, the article suggests that transdisciplinary critical womanist legal studies may help to address concerns that the successful institutionalization of WGS has narrowed the field’s focus, blunted its critical edge, and separated academic work from grassroots communities and political action.
Keywords: field formation, institutionalization, legal studies, transdisciplinarity, women’s studies
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In this article, I revisit the Wages for Housework (WfH) perspective and movement in order to recover Marxist-feminist analyses of social reproduction. Social reproduction remains an important site of contestation, especially as women continue to bear the brunt of an increasingly neo-liberalized economy. WfH’s nuanced view of wages and housework, I argue, should be reconsidered as a point of departure in responding to new forms of oppression in a re-organized economy.
Keywords: Housework, wages, social reproduction, second wave, social movements, feminism
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This contribution explores the process of intentional rewriting at work in Poisson d'or by J.M.G. Le Clézio, based on the narrative architecture of Désert, published seventeen years earlier. Through a structural analysis comparing the trajectories of the heroines Lalla and Laïla, we demonstrate how Le Clézio reused and modified the narrative elements of one of his own novels to adapt the same plot to the constraints of a more uprooted, more contemporary character who is nonetheless equally in search of identity. Three narrative elements common to both works are examined: the search for identity markers, the conflict between social assignment and freedom, and the Western experience as a path to exile or revelation. Using a methodological combination of Propp's approach and Bremond's theory of narrative possibilities, the study highlights that this phenomenon of rewriting, far from being a simple self-plagiarism of plot, constitutes a genuine aesthetic and poetic gesture, revealing the consistency of Le Clézio's themes and their ability to regenerate themselves according to figures and contexts.
Keywords: rewriting, récriture, analyse structurale, structural analysis, Propp, Propp, Le Clézio, Le Clézio, Bremond, Bremond
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Though born a free man, John W. Lindsay at the age of seven was abducted by slave catchers and enslaved in Washington D.C. He eventually landed in Western Tennessee where he made a declaration that he intended to emancipate himself no matter the cost. In order to receive the rights, liberties, and immunities granted to natural-born white men in the United States constitution, Lindsay had to flee to the border town of St. Catharines, Ontario. This article will reconstruct the principally unknown life of Lindsay as he negotiated nations, helped to build a Black community in Canada out of American refugees, and resolved to live in citizenship and equality with his contemporaries.
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