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To galvanize this discussion, two dialectics pertaining to ideas and notions of feminine sexuality and desire within twentieth-century woman's artmaking were addressed: one regarding such gender issues as they relate to the creative process as well as to efforts to redefine the codes and conventions of art and another about the submissive and passive sexualized image of woman as it was subverted by the feminist paradigm.Through intimate stories, survival tales, and modes of representation, geographies and generations of woman artists are called upon in order to further grasp the psycho-sexual and socio-sexual aspects of such a notion of sexual difference and of the visual representation of female erotics. At the level of ideas, values, conflicts, contradictions, and also at the level of concrete artistic practices, by way of visual languages and visual signs of feminity, a particular sensibility and a transformative potentiality are both addressed and stressed linguistically under the guise of feminine and feminist visual ideologies.
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The place of feminism, in a Quebec popular magazine, L'actualité, has been examined for the 1960-1996 period. The analysis of a corpus formed from 118 articles and columns, has shown that the discourse about feminism has scarcely changed during more than three decades and that it expresses many characteristics related to the patriarchal conception of social order. Two observations have been made. First, le political meaning of feminism has been occulted, as if women could not be subject of history. On the other hand, a mecanism of resistance has been at work in the magazine, revealed by the juxtaposition of feminist and sexist comments. One seems to minimize feminism and its influence within the Quebec society. While presenting the so-called journalistic objectivity, medias rather propose the version of masculine subjectivity.
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Through interview excerpts with women living or having lived hidden or visible homelessness, the authors show how these women are victims of rights violation related to their status as women. These violations of rights reveal how violence, refusal to accomplish a role as « informal » caregiver as well as poverty might lead to homelessness. Distress linked to violence, poverty and traditional gender role compliance seem also to foster dependence (use of drugs and alcohol) and mental health problems that are often linked to causes of homelessness. To find durable answers to homelessness, work on right promotion is thus insufficient. It is necessary to also work on the structural mechanism of women's oppression and its by-products that are poverty, violence and imposed domestic work. The authors present three challenges for intervention: the invisibility of women at risk, the necessity to maintain and develop services which take into account structural factors notably for poor women and their children and work for rights recognition.
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ABSTRACTValue words (or evaluatives) seem to have been a neglected topic in North American linguistics. This article offers a survey of evaluatives in French. After a brief characterization of evaluatives, I will show that, contrary to some reasonable expectations, they are not structured by the relation(s) of antonymy. Derivational morphology provides stronger correlations with axiological polarity. Suffixals can only bear a negative axiology, but this value is not inherent to the suffix, since, in many cases, it can be inherited from the word stem. Prefixes also have an axiological impact, which is not always a value reversal due to negation. Inside lexical units, values can be entailed or presupposed. Beyond the morpheme, there exist value-creating constructions, such as N de N expressions, and there is also a projection problem for axiology. We consider these axiological sites in succession, before turning to ironical utterances, and we show that the latter contain implicit value judgments.