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AbstractRobert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has historically been read as a “timeless” allegory dramatizing the fundamental conflict between the “good” and “evil” elements of human nature. More recent readings of the novel, however, have put forth historicized interpretations of the text emphasizing its engagements with the cultural developments of late-nineteenth-century Britain. This article builds upon these historicized readings, arguing that Stevenson's novella is reflective of the anxieties engendered by current theories of evolutionary degeneration and, more specifically, its manifestations in illicit behaviour, especially in the areas of alcohol consumption and sexual expression. Stevenson's novel actively critiques those cultural sites most vocal in articulating such anxieties, namely the temperance and social purity movements of the later nineteenth century. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thus deploys a language of (in)temperance to interrogate the potentially destructive results of an evolutionary model which posits the subject as already split between his or her civilized (moral) and barbaric (immoral) selves.

Abstract The ideas of a deliberative democracy and of a politics of recognition were designed to overcome some difficulties inherent to political liberalism. The normative implications of one is not opposed to those of the other, because the normative principle underlying the political struggles for recognition — the elimination of social sources of misrecognition — has to be implemented through public deliberation. Nevertheless, the citizens' ability and motivation to take part in public deliberation depend on predeliberative forms of recognition, especially their inclusion in the social division of work. They require also that citizens pay close attention to the effects of misrecognition brought about by their public use of reason.

The author analyses the processes of politicization and socialization to feminism in a local French organization of the Planned Parenthood Federation. The chosen organization is composed mainly of employees and has very few volunteers. While the majority of employees have not joined the association to defend gender equality in particular, the survey shows how they adopt a feminist grid of analysis of the social world by working in this association. The author highlights the « making » of feminist careers, examining successively the entry processes into the association studied for the feminist workers, their feminist socialization and the maintaining of their engagement.

Keywords: féminismes (mouvements sociaux), France, professionnalisation, socialisation, travail militant

Keywords: manga, Japon, fantasme, imaginaire, désir, exotisme

This study characterizes the social functioning of 14 women incarcerated in two provincial correctional institutions in Quebec. The results suggest that these women share some markers of social dysfunction with women in other federal and provincial correctional institutions in Canada, and that their life in the community is problematic even in early adolescence. It would therefore be useful to develop specific intervention programs for incarcerated women that would prevent their early involvement in criminalized social environments and reduce their risk of recidivism upon return to life in the community.

Keywords: Criminalité des femmes, dysfonction sociale, récidive, Female criminality, Social dysfunction, Recidivism, Criminalidad femenina, disfuncionamiento social, reincidencia

The extent, nature and evolution of delinquency and of psychoactive substance use among adolescents are fairly well documented. They are hot topics in the media. However, there have been fewer studies and public forums dealing with how youths interpret their trajectories of deviance and of recovery. An overview of Brunelle's work on the trajectories of juvenile deviance will be presented, along with the more recent results from Bertrand and colleagues regarding the recovery trajectories of young addicts in treatment. Particular attention will be given to the evolution of youths' motivations for using substances and committing crimes as well as of the reasons that they believe explain why they stopped or reduced these behaviours at certain points in their trajectory. The factors that triggered their request for services will also be presented. The importance of the relationships between drugs and delinquency in these trajectories will be highlighted. Possible avenues of intervention will be proposed according to the stages of the youths' trajectories of substance use and based on typical recovery trajectories.

Keywords: Trajectoires déviantes, drogues, délinquance, adolescence, intervention, Deviant trajectories, drugs, delinquency, adolescence, interventions, Trayectorias desviantes, drogas, delincuencia, adolescencia, intervención

Quebec author Nelly Arcan sets her four novels in Montreal, a mysterious city that she both depicts and recasts beyond the physical into a full-fledged element of her narrative, inseparable from the characters whose lives are being played out. Arcan describes Montreal not only through the gritty or upscale neighbourhoods she knows so well, but also as a virtual and imagined backdrop to her forays into science fiction. It is only through Alain Médam's Montréal interdite and Jean-Paul Cléber's Paris insolite that one can study Arcan's oeuvre to glimpse at Montreal's mystery.

Grounded in political liberalism, freedom of speech is often con-sidered to be the most fundamental of liberties within a democratic regime. Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada have reasserted such basic tenets by reasserting the marketplace of ideas metaphor and the principle of State neutrality. Moreover, it has accepted the limiting of freedom of speech owing to the harm principle. This article seeks to demonstrate the insufficiencies of such conceptualization and rather defends the thesis that legal debates pertaining to freedom of speech rather issue from disagreements as to the social meaning of the expression, thereby substituting a pragmatic approach to the liberal ideology.