Nancy Huston: + autonomie des femmes = + objets! « Plus les femmes sont autonomes, plus elles deviennent objets » À quelques jours de la Journée de la femme, le 8 mars, nous avons rencontré cette essayiste, romancière, féministe de la première heure. Nancy Huston nous parle de la féminité et dénonce la disparition d’un regard valorisant sur la maternité. Psychologies : Vous êtes née au Canada, vous avez grandi aux États-Unis, en Allemagne, et vous vivez en France depuis trente-huit ans. Vous écrivez et vous exprimez aussi bien en français qu’en anglais. Vous sentez-vous « étrangère » ? Nancy Huston : Je me sens en exil depuis toujours. Quelle petite fille étiez-vous ? N.H. : J’étais les quatre enfants de mon roman Lignes de faille : perverse et cruelle comme Sol, perplexe et nerveuse comme Randall, extrêmement triste et en colère comme Sadie, euphorique et joyeuse comme Kristina. À quel moment votre mère est-elle partie ? Vous lui devez tout, malgré son départ ? Vous a-t-elle expliqué pourquoi elle vous avait quittés ? N.H. : Oui.
Misogyny | The F Word Carly Rhianna Smith is a journalism student at Langara College currently completing her practicum at The Tyee in Vancouver. I became aware of the men’s rights movement in September of 2012, when a friend showed me an upcoming debate called “Has Feminism Gone Too Far?” Vancouver slam poet Ruth Mason-Paull organized the debate. The Facebook event exploded with venomous discourse between the two camps, and the event was cancelled. Around the same time, in the same neighbourhood, posters from the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM) Vancouver group began appearing, and were soon torn down. Journalist Derek Bedry, who soon came under fire from MRAs, reported on this in a story on Open File. The most active website I came across was AVoiceForMen.com. But what, exactly, do they stand for? At best, the MRAs look to correct what they see as a series of social injustices directed towards men in a society that caters to female dominance. The main antagonist of the MRM is feminism. “Who? “Men’s rights!
How objectification silences women - the male glance as a psychological muzzle : Not Exactly Rocket Science For something intangible, a glance can be a powerful thing. It can carry the weight of culture and history, it can cause psychological harm, and it can act as a muzzle. Consider the relatively simple act of a man staring at a woman’s body. This is such a common part of modern society that most of us rarely stop to think of its consequences, much less investigate it with a scientific lens. Tamar Saguy is different. Leading a team of Israeli and US psychologists, she has shown that women become more silent if they think that men are focusing on their bodies. Saguy’s study is one of the first to provide evidence of the social harms of sexual objectification – the act of treating people as “de-personalised objects of desire instead of as individuals with complex personalities”. She recruited 207 students, 114 of whom were women, on the pretence of studying how people communicate using expressions, gestures and vocal cues. Men had no such qualms. Reference: Saguy et al. 2010.
Beauty And Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices In The West - Sheila Jeffreys Corps en miettes C’est dans le cadre des discussions autour de la révision des lois bioéthiques, qui devrait intervenir au plus tard en 2011, que Sylviane Agacinski publie chez Flammarion "Corps en miettes", un essai sur la question des mères porteuses. Aux sénateurs qui proposent d’encadrer cette pratique et à ceux qui souhaitent sa légalisation, elle répond : La barbarie a toujours été moderne, toujours nouvelle, toujours actuelle. Nous progressons parfois vers elle sans le vouloir, aveuglés par les "progrès" de la puissance technologique et les ruses du marché. Sur 134 pages, la philosophe développe ses arguments. Avec conviction, Sylviane Agacinski dénonce l’extension absolue, sans reste, d’une mentalité capitaliste dans un monde où les plus faibles sont ainsi naturellement les premières proies de tous les marchés humiliants, comme le marché du sexe ou pire, celui des organes. L’auteur dénonce d’ailleurs l’hypocrisie du langage en la matière.
Anorexic Logic: On American Psycho "Nothing evokes the end of the world more than a man running straight ahead on a beach ... cocooned in the solitary sacrifice of his energy ... In a sense, he spews himself out ... He has to attain the ecstasy of fatigue, the "high" of mechanical annihilation." "To eat is to appropriate by destruction; it is at the same time to be filled up with a certain being." In the opening sequence of Mary Harron's 2000 film, American Psycho, based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, red sauce which first appears to be blood drips, then runs, over a white background. Bateman's apparent disgust and obsession with bodies (his own, and in particular, the female body) betrays a paradoxical effort to reject the baseness of the "raw," naked body, and to consume, as well as dissect, this body. In exposing and addressing these links, what insight can one receive from such a comparison between a fictional serial killer's bloodlust and an "everyday," anorexic logic?
Sans de vrais hommes, point de vraies femmes mment is free readers on … the sexualisation of girls | The people's panel Anonymous I was first scouted at the age of 14 by one of the world's most prestigious model agencies. I was told that my life had now changed and had to be perfect: bikini waxes, leg waxes, lots of water, perfect skin and having to stay slim were all on the agenda. I had just about started my period by then. When I put on seven pounds to become a whopping seven and a half stone, it was commented on before I'd made it halfway through the office. I did my first topless shoot a year later for a well-known photographer, and they were photographs that oozed sex. As far as I'm concerned we drape paedophilic images from every billboard and expensive magazine. This contributor prefers to remain anonymous Lili Owen Rowlands, posts as liliscarlet But I am ashamed that I did not question the very notion of sexualisation, that I succumbed to the male gaze so young. Melanie Gerlis, posts as melaniegerlis Erinn Dhesi, posts as mrsmiawallace
The Misogyny of Perfection Spoiler alert: please read this commentary after watching the movie. I have a friend who is a professor of women's studies who steadfastly refuses to go to the opera or the ballet, maintaining that both are profoundly misogynistic. Her oft-repeated comment is that "the girl almost always dies at the end" (think Tosca, Carmen, Mimi, Thais, Cho-cho-san, Giselle, and of course the White Swan). She will not be going to the movies to see Black Swan any time soon. Well, I just finished watching Black Swan and it made me wish that I had followed her example. A fragile little thing crumbling in the face of pressure We all know by now that Natalie Portman plays Nina, a repressed, perfectionist dancer with the New York City Ballet, who is given the opportunity to play the Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and crumbles from the pressure of having to dance both the parts of the pure White Swan and the evil Black Swan. Black Swan only reflects the misogyny that already exists in society
Chroniques d'une pieuvre: 02- Extraits du roman La Femme d’à côté Hagarde, je finissais mes courses tant bien que mal entre deux sanglots. - Et Madame, madame… - Oui, quoi ? - Madame, s’il vous plait, vos courses, faut les poser sur le tapis roulant, là. Je regardais la caissière avec incompréhension avant de comprendre où j’étais, ce que j’y faisais et de découvrir avec horreur que je bloquais tout le monde depuis au moins cinq bonnes minutes. Je pris ma voiture qui me conduisit chez La Femme d’à côté. Après avoir fait les yeux doux à une fillette qui, malgré sa moue suspicieuse, finit par m’ouvrir, je montai prestement les marches conduisant au vieil immeuble en briques rouges. Je sortis de l’ascenseur dans un état second, comme anesthésiée par le chloroforme du passé.
How sad that people need to be reminded!!! by sibelada Mar 29