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In this article, the author traces the achievements of feminist legal theory by tracing feminist ideas disseminated in majority or unanimous judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada where the issues are of direct relevance to women's lives and where the decision illustrates either a reversal of precedents or an acceptance of new concepts derived from feminist legal theory. The analysis proceeds in two steps. The first one is devoted to the question of gender and a new conception of equality between the sexes made possible by the gradual disappearance of the line separating the parallel worlds of women and men, thereby announcing the end of the « separate spheres » doctrine as well as the discussion centred on « la différence », marked inter alia by simple reciprocity as a measure of equality (« equality with a vengeance »). A second part deals with the relationship between women and society as a whole, and notes that women are becoming both fact-makers and rule-makers. The author concludes that the image of Woman is changing and that women are finally being admitted to the status of full-fledged human beings. There is now another view of gender equality not founded on the patriarchal notion of separate spheres and « la différence» but on the demonstrated reality of women's lives. The achievements of feminist legal theory are fragile, but nonetheless real.
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AbstractIteration is pervasive in Remembrance of Things Past. The question of comic repetition, which contributes to transforming lost time into time regained, is therefore central to Proust's aesthetics. If Bergson's theory provides a starting point to question what Proust calls “a repetition meant to suggest some new truth,” Proust's poetics brings into question Bergson's mechanical theory of the comic. My intention is to show how repetition, which is supposedly mechanical, can become a regenerative principle and how Proust's irony and humour relate to the comic of repetition.
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AbstractThe case raised by Muhammad's caricatures (feb. 2006) has shown that there could be limits to the mocking of religious matters. If the limits can vary from a religion to an other, in this paper it will be pointed how they evolved within the Catholic religion, that is considered more tolerant in these matters. Using a historical methodology and theological coordinates, five important landmarks or typical situations are presented within the history of the relationships between Christianity and mockery, focusing on the pictorial caricature of this religion's great figures?: the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the last decades of the 19th century, and the second half of the 20th century. It is shown that tolerance towards mockery varies depending on the “target”?: God, Christ, the Virgin Mary, or the saints, the priests and the religious practices. In any case, tolerance always has to be negotiated within the social pact that is central to every society, in order to prevent the problems that can result from clashes of sensitivity.