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In Ben Sira's book, two texts deal with the dangerous beauty of women (25,21 and 9,8). In this article, the author seeks to answer the following questions. What should be understood by “beauty of women”? Why is women's beauty dangerous? How are Ben Sira's discourses on the beauty of women likely to affect gender power relations? Do the warnings about beauty, as we can read them in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira, correspond exactly to the warnings of his grandson, who translated his grandfather's book into Greek? What do the differences tell us about how these two men view the dangerousness of female beauty? Finally, are these warnings simply in keeping with the mentality of their time or are they original?
Keywords: Ben Sira, femme, beauté, machisme
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In order to analyze the literary project of Sami Tchak, this article proposes to see in the genre of the art of love a heuristic model. Considered in three ways, the erotic didactic at work in Place des fêtes, Hermina, Le Paradis des chiots et Filles de Mexico is structured from resolutely emancipated female figures who, for some of them, are constituted as magister of love. In their confrontation with alienating logics, the words and trajectories of these characters configure a sum of reflections on the functions and uses of literature : these are the arts of love that the writer intends to transmit to us.
Keywords: Sami Tchak, art d'aimer, didactique, magistère érotique féminin, fiction, apologue, fonctions et usages de la littérature
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Of all the instances Of American cultural cross-currents, Haitian voodoo and Brazilian candomblé and macumba are among the most fascinating and paradoxical. Without proposing to study these cults as objects of anthropology, this article compares the symbolic function of the representations of rituals in two novels, le Mât de cocagne by the Haitian René Depestre and the "classic" of Brasilian modernism, Macunaima by Mário de Andrade. Religion serves as the arena embodying resistance to the European colonizer and attests to a process of profound cultural absorption
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The Saint Play in medieval France teem with devils embodying evil, adversity, and otherness. This article discusses certain elements related to devils' speech in these plays, and in particular the role of diabolic seduction whose aim is to trap humans into sinning. Despite this goal, the seductive discourse within these plays functions at least in part, to encourage audience members to seek out their own salvation. This inherent inversion structures the diabolic speech act and explains its failures that after all, are much more frequent than its successes. Here then, the Christian discourse seems not only victorious but also totalitarian, because it represents its own subversion in order to better affirm its authority—thus devils seem more like agents of order than troublemakers.
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The purpose of this critical essay is to demonstrate that female sex work is linked to diversified stakes which all have an impact on the social representations conveyed towards women. It adopts a constructivist analysis (foucaldienne) to illustrate the institutionalization of the standards of women's sexuality. The text demonstrates how female prostitution is a social construction. Il then depicts the political debate which surrounds the question and from which various types of feminism and models of regulation have emerged. Finally, an analysis of female prostitution as an object of intervention in social work is exposed.
Keywords: travail du sexe, prostitution, femmes, féminisme, travail social, sex work, prostitution, female, feminism, social work
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AbstractHomeless drug users and prostitutes constitute a population at risk for contracting and propagating AIDS. This study aims at understanding the paradox related to drug injection and prostitution among 21 homeless from Montreal. These behaviors are studied following the picoeconomic paradox of an apprehended desire. The results show that these homeless see drug injection as a self-reward motivated by imaginary emotional object, in spite of the known and dreaded consequences. Prostitution is described as a self-investment accessory to drug injection. This study concludes with reflections on AIDS prevention programs in relation with the needs of the homeless.