La «confluencia» de los géneros a través del sistema mediático : de la mujer sumisa y el macho ibérico al «ser andrógino

En este artículo, pretende examinarse la evolución de los modelos referenciales que, en torno a los elementos constitutivos de la feminidad y la masculinidad, vendrían siendo masivamente difundidos a través de los medios de comunicación en la sociedad española desde el comienzo de la transición a la democracia. Partiendo de la estricta delimitación en el reflejo mediático de «el hombre» y «la mujer» que trasciende del franquismo, se analiza el modo en que las representaciones simbólicas predominantes de ambos géneros terminan actualmente convergiendo en un particular paradigma de ser humano, caracterizado por un cierto perfil andrógino.This article aims to examine the evolution of the referential models which, regarding the constitutive elements of femininity and masculinity, have been circulating on a massive scale through the mass media in Spanish society since the beginning of the Transition. Starting with an exact definition, as reflected by the media, of «man» and «woman» which has come about from the Franco era, the article analyses the way in which predominant symbolic representations of both genders actually end up converging in one particular paradigm if the human being, characterised by a certain androgynous profile

Pouillon, François & Rivet, Daniel (sous la direction de). – La sociologie musulmane de Robert Montagne. Actes du colloque EHESS et Collège de France. Paris, 5-7 juin 1997. Paris, Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000, 288 p. (« Raisons ethnologiques »).

This collection of essays, according to the editors, “constitue en soi une sorte d’événement. Il y a encore peu d’années un tel synoécisme franco-magrhébin eut été impensable” (p. 1). Indeed, eight of the fifteen authors represented in this conference volume are North African or Middle-Eastern, the other half French. They came together in June 1997, moreover, to take the measure of the eminent sociologist “du monde musulman”, Robert Montagne (1893-1954), whose career and scientific corpus “so..

Pascale Barthélémy, Africaines et diplômées à l’époque coloniale (1918-1957)

L’excellent ouvrage de Pascale Barthélémy constitue un nouveau titre, très bienvenu, dans la floraison d’études dévolues à ce que Gregory Mann a appelé « la relation contrainte particulière » entre la France et l’Afrique. Pascale Barthélémy s’est penchée sur la petite minorité d’Africaines – à peine un millier au total – issues de la fédération d’Afrique Occidentale Française (AOF) et formées par les Français pour devenir sages-femmes, infirmières-visiteuses (jusqu’en 1938) ou encore institut..

Rebecca Rogers, A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria

En racontant de très belle manière la vie de Madame Luce, enseignante française et arabophone dans l’Algérie de la fin du xixe siècle, Rebecca Rogers enrichit les travaux, de plus en plus nombreux, sur les Européennes installées dans la colonie dans les premières décennies de la colonisation. Centré sur une femme ordinaire, qui a laissé peu de traces dans les archives publiques, ce travail est en réalité une étude plus large, consacrée à l’histoire sociale des changements de pratiques éducati..

Drosophila Helical factor is an inducible protein acting as an immune-regulated cytokine in S2 cells.

The innate immunity of Drosophila melanogaster is based on cellular and humoral components. Drosophila Helical factor (Hf), is a molecule previously discovered using an in silico approach and whose expression is controlled by the immune deficiency (Imd) pathway. Here we present evidence demonstrating that Hf is an inducible protein constitutively produced by the S2 hemocyte-derived cell line. Hf expression is stimulated by bacterial extracts that specifically trigger the Imd pathway. In absence of any bacterial challenge, the recombinant form of Hf can influence the expression of the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) defensin but not drosomycin. These data suggest that in vitro Hf is an inducible and immune-regulated factor, with functions comparable to those of secreted vertebrate cytokine

Deb8 : a tool for collaborative analysis of video

Funding: This research is supported by the Brazilian National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) and the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its International Research Centres in Singapore Funding Initiative.Public, parliamentary and television debates are commonplace in modern democracies. However, developing an understanding and communicating with others is often limited to passive viewing or, at best, textual discussion on social media. To address this, we present the design and implementation of Deb8, a tool that allows collaborative analysis of video-based TV debates. The tool provides a novel UI designed to enable and capture rich synchronous collaborative discussion of videos based on argumentation graphs that link quotes of the video, opinions, questions, and external evidence. Deb8 supports the creation of rich idea structures based on argumentation theory as well as collaborative tagging of the relevance, support and trustworthiness of the different elements. We evaluated the design of the tool in a study of three groups of three people. We present the results of the study and a reflection on the challenges involved.Postprin

Education Through Labor: From the deuxième portion du contingent to the Youth Civic Service in West Africa (Senegal/Mali, 1920s-1960s)

International audienceUnder the French colonial regime, the “second portion” of the military was used as labour brigades, compelled to serve for two years in works of public nature. They were encamped in labor camp and were taught the value of work as well as discipline and basic rules of hygiene. After the independence of the francophone West African countries in 1960, postcolonial leaders in Senegal and Mali try to implement a civil service for the youth in order to offer them basic education. In reality, the civil service appears as a way to control and use the recruits for economic purposes echoing in some extent the former colonial “second portion du contingent.” More broadly, through the analysis of the legacies and continuities, I argue that the postcolonial elites perpetuate the “civilizing mission,” no more for the so-called mise en valeur of the colonies but for the development of the territory

Dysregulation of locus coeruleus development in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Human congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), resulting from mutations in transcription factor PHOX2B, manifests with impaired responses to hypoxemia and hypercapnia especially during sleep. To identify brainstem structures developmentally affected in CCHS, we analyzed two postmortem neonatal-lethal cases with confirmed polyalanine repeat expansion (PARM) or Non-PARM (PHOX2B∆8) mutation of PHOX2B. Both human cases showed neuronal losses within the locus coeruleus (LC), which is important for central noradrenergic signaling. Using a conditionally active transgenic mouse model of the PHOX2B∆8 mutation, we found that early embryonic expression (<E10.5) caused failure of LC neuronal specification and perinatal respiratory lethality. In contrast, later onset (E11.5) of PHOX2B∆8 expression was not deleterious to LC development and perinatal respiratory lethality was rescued, despite failure of chemosensor retrotrapezoid nucleus formation. Our findings indicate that early-onset mutant PHOX2B expression inhibits LC neuronal development in CCHS. They further suggest that such mutations result in dysregulation of central noradrenergic signaling, and therefore, potential for early pharmacologic intervention in humans with CCHS

Race and the Legacy of the First World War in French Anti-Colonial Politics of the 1920s

There has been relatively little historical research on the small number of African veterans who stayed on in France after the First World War and became militants in the radical anti-colonial movements created in the 1920s. From his entry onto the political stage in late 1924 until his early death three years later, the most celebrated and feared of these anti-colonial militants was Lamine Senghor, a decorated war veteran from Senegal. This chapter will chart Senghor’s brief career as an activist, focusing primarily on the ways in which he projected his identity as a veteran in his speeches and writings, as well as exploring, more generally, how France’s “blood debt” to its colonial subjects became a key theme of anti-colonial discourse in the interwar period