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For a rite theory. Michel Cartry and the question of the space-body
In 1973, when 0he presented himself at the 0Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Michel Cartry had indicated that his d0 teaching project would cover l0 analysis of think systems in Black Africa, and that 0he would carry out this analysis by following two research directions, one on l0ideal of the unif...
Inventories, Catalogs, and Venuses : Excavating the Archive in Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus
This article discusses archival and memorial work in the poetry collection Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis. I track Lewis’s experimental poetic strategies to confront and unsettle archival silences and erasures when it comes to Black female bodies in the archive of Transatlantic slave...
Telenovela and speech as social change in the analysis of the Maria da Penha character in Cheese of Charme
Analisa the speech of the Maria da Penha character, interpreted by the atriz taís Araújo, thelenovela Cheias de Charme, Filipe Migueiz and Izabel de Oliveira by applying the Critical Discourse Analysis (ACD). The aim is to map the representation of the character as a Brazilian black domestic employe...
“(I’m) Not A Bad Girl” Brenda Fassie or the transgression of norms
A through an analysis of the career and life of South African singer Brenda Fassie (1964-2004) the article aims to show how a popular success has been built based on the construction of a permanent character in the transgression of social norms which has led him to represent one facet of the fight a...
bell hooks, Reel to Real. Race, Class and Sex at the Movies
not known in France and translated for the first time into French with A Woman, a book prefaced by Afrofemministe Amandine Gay, bell Hooks is a major intellectual of North American Black feminism, including Audre Lorde and Angela Davis. Some authors such as Elsa Dorlin, Estelle Ferrarese and Nassira...
From "Faithful Old Servant" to "Bantu Woman": Katherine Anne Porter's Approach to the Mammy Myth in "The Old Order"
the news about the Miranda character was usually interpreted as an attempt by the author to deconstruct the myth of Southern Vieux. She presented the experiences of Miranda, a white girl growing in the south at the end of the 19th century. Miranda’s life is mainly determined by the myth of the white...
Race, Class, Gender and Countryside. Feminist Epistemologies of the Margin
<p>In my article I am trying to explore ways in which Polish feminism<br />can expand its knowledge about woman living in the countryside. To this purpose<br />I recall theories from black feminist thought and postcolonial studies which help<br />to enrich subaltern epistemologies. To renegotiate re...
Mujer y mestizaje :Traspasando fronteras étnico-sociales en el Buenos Aires Colonial
In a social class structure, apparently rigid, overpowered by males, a woman, which was stigmatized as a descendant of a laundress of mixed black blood, in eighteenth century Buenos Aires climbed to the top of the social ladder through a series of methods. The purpose of this analysis is to study th...
APONTAMENTOS SOBRE AS REPRESENTAÇÕES DAS MULHERES NEGRAS: luta e resistência
The present article is the result of a dissertation research carried out between 2015 and 2016 during the Master's course in Public Policies of the Federal University of Maranhão. The objective of this paper is to recover the context of struggle and resistance of black womem, as well as the theo...
AS RELAÇÕES ENTRE RACISMO E SEXISMO E O DIREITO À SAÚDE MENTAL DA MULHER NEGRA BRASILEIRA
This research configuration and development aimed to know how discriminato ry practices, such as racism and sexism, could be influential in the construction of a susceptible scenario to the vulnerability of the mental health right of black women. For that, a historical panorama was...
Étude génétique de la représentation des femmes dans Un homme pareil aux autres de René Maran
Un homme pareil aux autres is a novel inspired by the real life of René Maran, rewritten from the 1920s until its final version in 1947. In fact, it is a romance novel whose sentimentality has received little attention or was squarely belittled. This article analyses what is at stake in this sentime...
A Pioneer of Women’s Liberation
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel is a creative icon who has freed the ‘new’ woman from the millennium of dictated dress codes, stereotypical behaviors and clichéd sexual and status simplification. The little black dress has become synonymous of sophistication, to the femininity she gave the character...
Virtual Patient Case #2: Mrs. Dubois - Chief Diagnosis: Breast Cancer
Abstract This resource contains the virtual patient case of Mrs. Esther DuBois, a geriatric patient diagnosed with breast cancer. This case is part of a series of virtual patient cases designed to allow facilitators to demonstrate care for an aging population. This case provides past medical history...
Maria Metade e as Incompletudes da Alma: o Ser Plural Moçambicano
We intend in this article to analyze the tale "Meia culpa, meia própria culpa," by Mia Couto, showing one of many possible perspectives of analysis of the author's work. Our analysis has by objective to explicit the between-place in Couto´s discourse, highlighting the social practices present in li...
As the body must appear: contemporary performances in post-Marikana South Africa
On the 16th of August 2012 34 Lonmin miners lost their lives at Marikana in South Africa. Marikana bears witness to the socio-economic inequality and precarious work and living conditions in South Africa’s new globalized state. Two site-specific contemporary performances Mari and Kana (2015) and Iqh...
Belas, sim! Recatadas e do lar, não! Violências, feminilidades outras e resistências de professoras da educação básica
Este artigo objetiva apresentar dados de pesquisa concluída com a intenção de levantar/problematizar questões sobre configurações de feminilidades que cercam as professoras da educação básica, as violências a que estão sujeitas e as estratégias utilizadas para resistir e, portanto, avançar em prol d...
Afro-Cuban Cyberfeminism: Love/Sexual Revolution in Sandra Álvarez Ramírez’s Blogging
This essay focuses on the dynamics of (dis)embodiment between national love and the body of the black woman in Cuba. This very discussion lies at the center of Sandra Álvarez Ramírez’s blog 'Negra cubana tenía que ser', where the black woman’s body becomes an ideal in itself. Álvarez Ramírez’s intel...
Norms And Environment Of Gender, Sex, And Love: Black Female Protagonists In Toni Morrison's Sula
The present paper discusses the great African American woman novelist Toni Morrison and her novel Sula. This work is an expression of Morrison's concern for the degradation of women in society. It is about two female protagonists who have been born and brought up according to norms and an environmen...
Literatura e transgressão: SADE, Masoch e Bataille
This article intends to link Litterature and transgression through the analysis of three of the authors considered “libertins”: SADE, Masoch and Bataille. Sade’s novels are erotic novels written to satisfy her immense sexual excitation and possibly share it with someone else. SADE presents his heroe...
Black and anti-racism women in Brazil
The aim of this text is to highlight the contributions of black activists and intellectuals to the Brazilian anti-racist movement. Three elements are presented to think about this process: first, the way in which some black thinkers understood Brazilian racial dynamics; second, as they have problema...
Ruth Ellis’s Suit
On 10 April 1955 Ruth Ellis shot and killed her lover outside a north London pub. She was arrested on the spot and tried for murder in the Number One Court at the Old Bailey; her highly publicised trial was short, and the jury took just over twenty minutes to reach a guilty verdict. She was executed...
Between anonymity and visibility. On the transnational prostitution of black women in Denmark
Associations about the sexuality of the black woman and a special view of prostitution in Denmark play a role in the prostitution of black women migrants. At the same time, they are anonymised and made visible.
Light fur black woman or dark fur white woman? Tensions, negotiations and disputes of truths in the constitution of black youtuber
The present work aims to analyze the tensions and the real disputes that go through the process of constitution of the black youtubers, having as materiality selected the video "On being black", of the channel Rayza Nicácio, that will be analyzed from the theoretical-methodological perspective of th...
WOMAN SLAVED: A historical RESSIGNIFICATION
This article seeks to discuss the role of women in Brazil on the basis of the literary work ‘The Victims’, written by Joaquim Manoel de Justido. The work analysed is divided into three narratives: Simeão: the crioulo, Pai-Raiol: feitian and Lucinda: mussel, remembering that the latter will be the mo...
Las negras rioplatenses: entre la invisibilidad y el mito
Slavery, which plaid a significant role in several ancient civilizations around the world, was supported by philosophers, theologians and popes. Even if its importance has been underestimated, the presence of black women and men is stated from the first expeditions to the River Plate (many times, by...