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In this article, we examine the issue of female conjugal homicide from the woman's perspective. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part presents the socio-legal aspects involved by analysing the legal relevance of the «battered woman syndrome» (BWS). In the second, we present our methodological and epistemological standpoint. Finally, we explore the voices of women and professionals in Canada, France and Belgium on two major themes : 1) the factors leading to the act and 2) the reactions of women after the crime.
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SummaryBecause it can be avoided and eluded, breast-feeding occupies a place apart among the biological constraints attached to human reproduction. Better than pregnancy and childbirth, it represents freedom and therefore constitutes the truly human dimension of motherhood: it is the threshold between nature and culture. Choice does not only depends on what the mother decides: it obeys norms which vary depending on place, milieux, and moment. Breast-feeding, a female function which is considered natural, is, then, also a remarkable indicator of social ties: sexual relations between mother and father, class relations between mother and wet nurse, knowledge relations between mother and physician.
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AbstractIn this article, based on a field research with criminalized women in Quebec and with front line workers, we address the question of criminalized women's work. More specifically, we want to precise how those women define and give meaning to the concept of employment. We also want to review some of the existing resources created to help those women to find a job. Are they sufficient and do they really address the needs of the criminalized women? We also present the resources, projects and changes which would positively improve the employment policies toward criminalized women. Finally, we will question the efficiency of the penal policies toward criminalized women. Despite their obvious failures, those policies are still maintained. In that sense, our research emphasizes the need to re-think those policies by considering the women's expectations and experiments in terms of employment, by taking into account the numerous forms of oppression they are still submitted to, by trying to diminish or suppress the structural repressive ideology that negatively impacts on their lives.
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ABSTRACTThis study of 753 legal separation cases shows which parent obtained custody of the children during the separation. A French-inspired legal tradition recommended awarding the children to the "innocent" spouse, since a poor spouse was also presumed to be a poor parent. Because women were the ones who most often requested and obtained the separation, they kept the children in the majority of the cases. When both spouses appeared equally blameworthy, the children were placed in a religious institution. In the judges' view, as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, the interests of the child thus prevailed over paternal rights.
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ABSTRACTBased on twenty biographical interviews with young Quebec adults in socioecono-mically precarious situations, this article first shows how they differ in the ways they deal with the various resources available to them (formal, intermediate and informal). With particular emphasis on three youths in precarious situations, it also underscores the growing importance of intermediate resources for these young adults. However, the use of such resources varies considerably, ranging from uses leading to integration to living with dependence, and including, for an increasing number of youth, creating the only form of lifestyle and working environment in which they can "fit in."