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This paper focuses on the relationship of power between the prostitute and the client in Nelly Arcan's novel Putain (2001). Although the client uses violence against the body and the subjectivity of the prostitute to put her in a position of inferiority in the sexual exchange, this domination is challenged in the enunciation. This paper intends to use discourse analysis to demonstrate that the reappropriation of violence in the enunciation allows the narrator to overturn the relationship of domination depicted in the erotic scene, but without deconstructing its underlying logic. This contributes to the ambivalence of the novel.
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Using local newspapers and archival documents from the City of Vancouver Archives, this article investigates how state actors—namely the city of Vancouver's Health Department—attempted to regulate professional tattooing in Vancouver. Simultaneously, I consider how tattooists understood health and sanitation relative to tattooing and, in the process, responded to and challenged regulation. In doing so, I investigate the complex relationship between Vancouver's professional tattooists and state actors, focusing on the methods used to regulate tattooing. I argue that although unfounded or inadequately established health concerns typically concealed efforts to control tattooing, tattooists worked within and against regulation to maintain a presence in Vancouver.
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How is it possible to think the contemporary duty to break the silence as the #metoo political movement implies? each trauma needs a part of silence, particularly when it is framed in a story by a subjectivity reluctant to "tell the truth" How can we articulate the political issues based on a solidarity of telling and denouncing and the personal needs of staying silent? Through the works of Nelly Arcan, Christine Angot and Virginie Despentes, we will analyze these questions
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While works devoted to ladies of pleasure abound, their male counterparts seem to have been relegated to oblivion by literary historians. To this day, no study or monograph recounts the evolution of these characters, even though they can be traced back to Antiquity. Long before their entry into French dictionaries, these “male prostitutes” – as they would be called today – have been very present in literature, particularly in the XVIIIth century. L'Année galante ou les intrigues secrètes du marquis de L***, an anonymous novel published in 1785, depicts one of these kept men living at the expense of women. It also introduces a historical figure, Armand Prévost de Létorière, as well as a social fact that remains largely unknown, the practice of “guerluchonnage” – making it one of the ancient testimonies of heterosexual male prostitution.
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