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The novels of Franco-Ontarian writer Michel Dallaire are often read from a “universalist” point of view, in which the clash with distant lands and the “other” are given primary importance. However, this work, in using the example offered in Terrains vagues (1992), demonstrates that these motifs do not constitute an end in themselves but rather that they are produced by the incapacity of the female character, after having suffered a childhood trauma, to live among her own, in her natal community. The main character does not so much seek out the other as she does to flee. Likewise, the focus is less placed on this new, far-away land than and more on that which she has left behind: her community of origin, her family, her past, her deep sense of unease, her troubles, her shame. Moreover, seeing as the novel reads as though it were the journal of the character, it highlights a certain intertextuality through which the heroine attempts to progress in her quest for liberation.
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The article focuses on the activity of civil society organizations working in the prevention of STI in Portugal, in order to analyze how they perceive sex workers and design the social support programs addressed at them. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of the discursive production of privileged informants with relevant intervention in this area. The data we gathered allowed us to identify some obstacles opposing the access to the health care system and to HIV/Aids and STI prevention, namely the discriminatory discourses and practices towards these sex workers. The dichotomy vulnerability / threat tag the figure of sex workers and the public debate around sex work.
Keywords: Travailleuses du sexe, vulnérabilité, organisations de la société civile, prévention, infections sexuellement transmissibles (IST), Female sex workers, vulnerability, civil society organizations, prevention, sexually transmitted infections (STI)
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In this article, the author seeks to answer the following questions : How is this pericope structured ? Do verses 10-12 refer to the daughter or to another female character ? Why should the word thugatēr in verse 10a be understood to mean daughter ? How should the description of the daughter in verses 10-11 be interpreted ? How should the comparison in verse 12a and the metaphors in verses 12b-d be understood ? Why can it be said that the portrait of the daughter in verses 10-12 is pornographic ?
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Based on the discourse of contemporary authorities and observers, and on judiciary archives, this article sheds light on the situation of prostitutes in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century French Atlantic. It attempts to explain how the prostitute's activities made her an element of disorder for French society, both in the metropolis and in New France. The themes of gender and sexuality are therefore addressed in an imperial and Atlantic perspective, in order to bring out the particularities of the colonial context and to suggest ideas for future research.