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Keywords: cinéma populaire, comédie, Québec, rapports sociaux de sexe, identité

Honour-based violence (HBV), including excessive control, is multiple forms of violence mainly committed against women and young girls. This violence calls into question traditional values linked to codes of honour. Although there is no recognized universal definition of excessive control, workers know how to recognize it in the field. Moreover, in 2016, for the first time, the Quebec legislator added excessive control to the list of psychological mistreatment explicitly recognized by the Youth Protection Act.

Keywords: violences basées sur l'honneur, violences faites aux femmes, contrôle excessif, mauvais traitement psychologique, protection de la jeunesse, honour-based violence, violence against women, excessive control, psychological ill-treatment, youth protection

This article proposes to discuss the representation of work in remote areas, more specifically a hydroelectric construction site in the North Shore region of Quebec. The discussion is mainly based on Les murailles [The Walls] by Érika Soucy (2016), in which the narrator recounts her few days stay with her father in a camp at the La Romaine complex. While there, she discovers a workplace that becomes a significant part of the narrative. The discussion is then divided into three parts. First, the work of the geographer Caroline Desbiens offers some historical and geographic context for understanding the importance of these hydroelectric work sites in the history and imagination of Quebec. Next, returning to Soucy's narrative, the concept of personnel romanesque (literary personnel) theorized by Philippe Hamon, then by Isabelle Kirouac Massicotte in the Quebec and Canadian context, is mobilized to show how this type of workplace-centered narrative often tends to reduce many characters to a dual function: one at the worksite and the other within the narrative. Finally, theories of care underpin a critical analysis of the divisions of paid work at the construction site, and also of the work of care within the workers' families. Accordingly, this article approaches Les murailles as an eyewitness account of work at a hydroelectric construction site and a discussion of how this type of megaproject conditions the life of workers and their loved ones.

Keywords: Hydroélectricité, Nord, Personnage, Région, Érika Soucy, Travail, hydroelectricity, north, character, region, Érika Soucy, work

The end of the nineteenth century left its mark on literary history through its taste for excess, emphasis, and transgression. In their portrayals of consensual incestuous relationships within the same family, Élémir Bourges, Rachilde, and Catulle Mendès draw on the taboo to sharpen the boundary between the licit and the illicit. While Decadence was preoccupied with staging its own demise, its literary treatment of incest shows it on the brink – aware of its self-destruction, yet equally conscious of an imminent return to order.

Keywords: Décadence, inceste, fin de siècle, Rachilde, Catulle Mendès, Élémir Bourges, Wagner, Decadence, incest, Rachilde, Catulle Mendès, Élémir Bourges, Wagner

Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) eut un impact considérable à un moment charnière de l’histoire et de l’art européens. Faisant preuve d’une énorme résilience, elle trouva un moyen efficace d’affirmer son agentivité et fut une source d’inspiration puissante pour des générations de femmes et d’artistes dans leur propre quête d’expression et de réalisation de soi. Cette thèse démontre qu’Emma tira sa puissance particulière de sa capacité à négocier des identités différentes et parfois même contradictoires – objet et sujet ; modèle et portraiturée ; artiste, muse et œuvre d’art ; épouse, maîtresse et prostituée ; roturière et aristocrate ; mondaine et ambassadrice : et interprète d’une myriade de caractères historiques, bibliques, littéraires et mythologiques, tant masculins que féminins. Épouse de l’ambassadeur anglais à Naples, favorite de la …

AbstractSPIRIT POSSESSION:A PSYCHO-CULTURAL SYNDROME OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOURThe Voodoo trance represents the principal aspect of deviant behaviour among coloured people. This tricky phenomenon, always considered a challenge to any scientific explanation, was subjected to an experimental analysis.We wanted to find out what the trance performers have in common and to check whether a typical psychological structure could be associated with their deviant behaviour.The sample included forty-four subjects divided into three categories: a) a ritual group, b) a non-ritual group, c) a control group. No male subject was used because very few men are ever possessed by spirits. Every subject was submitted to a preliminary medical check-up (physical, neurological and laboratory tests), and to a series of psychological examinations (Raven, Goldstein-Scheerer, Sacks, Rorschach, autobiographical and personality questionnaires).The findings of the neurologist, the pathologist and the laboratory were completely negative as far as somatic predisposition to trance was concerned. But evidence of significant differences between the experimental and the control groups was demonstrated on the basis of personality tests and autobiographical questionnaires.Spirit possession, to be induced, requires not only specific conditioning experiences, but also a disturbed, anxious and depressed personality. The non-ritual form does not imply a higher degree of pathology.An intimate relationship between possession, states of depression and suicide has been indicated. The trance seems to be the only alternative for the neutralization of hostile feelings, either directed to the self or to others. The inhibitory effect of possession could finally prove to be a factor in reducing criminality in Haiti.

This article is an attempt to investigate the various meanings of the words "postmodernity", "postmodernism" and "postmodern". ft also assesses the significance of these words and of the concepts that they express for criminology. The paper is divided in three parts. The first part tries to dispell important misunderstandings that have sprung in relation to postmodernism. The most significant of these is the belief that there is such a thing as a postmodernist "method" in the social sciences. The second part identifies the origin of the term "postmodern" and discusses various themes which are perceived to be characteristic of postmodern thought. These themes are: the present legitimation crisis, the internal reflexivity of scientific theory, discourse analysis and meta-language, social and cultural fragmentation and historical pessimism. The last part draws the consequences of the preceding analyses for the development of criminology.

The author provides a critical analysis of the recent Supreme Court judgment in the Morgentaler case. Focussing on an examination of the main question addressed to the Court, that is the compliance of Criminal Code Section 251 with the Canadian Charter, he examines the various motives that led the judges to declare Section 251 unconstitutional. While underlining various weaknesses in the judges' reasoning, he criticizes Section 7 as being too wide and a source of future confusion.