Wards of the State: regnant and prostitute women

The paper demonstrates common mechanisms underlying state control of prostitute and pregnant women. On a global level, institutional regulation of pregnancy and prostitution has been incorporated into “population control” and “migration control” under the name of “family planning” and “anti trafficking”. Although those policies fit within a coherent system, reproductive and sexual issues are most often isolated, or framed as ideological and strategic opposites, also by feminist theorists and activists. This false dichotomy reinforces the division of women and colludes with social hypocrisy and injustice.El artículo muestra los mecanismos comunes subyacentes en el control estatal a mujeres prostitutas y embarazadas. Aun nivel global, la regulación institucional del embarazo y de la prostitución ha sido incorporada al “control de la población” y al “control de la migración” bajo el nombre de “planeamiento familiar” y “antitráfico”. Aunque estas políticas se incluyen dentro de un sistema coherente, las cuestiones sobre reproducción y sexualidad son muy a menudo aisladas o enmarcadas como oposiciones ideológicas y estratégicas, incluso por feministas teóricos y activistas. Esta falsa dicotomía refuerza la división de la mujer y refuerza la hipocresía social y la injusticia

Caribbean initiative on abortion and contraception: Acercando el Caribe a América Latina en la lucha por el aborto seguro, Puerto Rico

Describe las actividades realizadas en la visita a la región del caribe Oriental con el propósito de actualizar la situación del aborto, parece ser un momento histórico muy particular en esta región del Caribe Oriental con una clara tendencia hacia la liberalización en lo que toca a la legislación sobre aborto. Dado el contexto particular de ser regiones geográficas pequeñas, donde la intimidad y estigma se ven más vulnerados, la colaboración internacional en lo tocante al tema del aborto es bienvenida y ciertamente podría contribuir a facilitar el diálogo entre los tres sectores más afectados las mujeres, profesionales de salud y el sector gubernamenta

Le féminisme pris aux pièges

This article sketches the distancing of dominant feminist orientations from the struggle against institutional and ideological sexism, most notably in their collusion with governments to « protect » women against criminal violence, and in their abandon of coalitions between women in the hope of gaining rights as a sexual minority. In the early 1980’s, intense debates ensued between so-called anti-violence/anti-prostitution and pro-rights/pro-sex feminists. Those who championed the cause of sexually transgressive women were identified as sex radicals. Over the past thirty years, anti-violence feminists have succeeded in mainstreaming their objectives in national legislative reforms, NGOs, UN conventions and popular media. Some sex radical feminists, worn down by the complicity of anti-violence crusaders with governments in search of ideological credit to justify discriminatory control of undocumented migrants and illicit revenues, have found a less antagonistic political base in a Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender alliance. This erosion of feminist coalitions, however conflictive they may be, represents a decentering – or erasure – of radical feminism in favour of protectionist reforms, on one side, and integrationist reforms, on the other

La parité n’offre aucune garantie contre une politique de droite

Pheterson Gail. La parité n’offre aucune garantie contre une politique de droite. In: Cahiers du GEDISST (Groupe d'étude sur la division sociale et sexuelle du travail), N°17, 1996. Principes et enjeux de la parité. pp. 85-92

The Prostitution Prism

This collection of essays spans ten years (1984-1994) of theoretical and activist work on prostitution. Hypocrisies and mystifications attached to prostitution are closely examined in an attempt to reveal their underlying political logic. What are the realities of sex work and what exactly do laws outlaw, tolerate and / or require? Most centrally, what does sex work mean to women and how does it illustrate the balance of power between women and men? Together these essays elaborate a critique of the categories 'prostitute' and 'prostitution' as constructed both in scientific research and in international policy-making. That critique touches especially the stigma attached to being a 'whore' as an official and traditional mechanism of social control

Alliance Between Women: Psychological Processes Against Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Heterosexism

A project was organized in the Netherlands to study and interrupt the psychological factors that divide women from one another. Black and white, Jewish and non-Jewish, and lesbian and heterosexual women met in parallel groups for several five month cycles. Groups focused first on self-disclosure (visibility and pride), then on within-group dynamics (solidarity), and then on between-group dynamics (alliance).The black-white process was characterized by anger and blame on the black side and by guilt and fear of revenge or need for reassurance on the white side. The Jewish-non-Jewish process was characterized by feelings of isolation and needs for protection on the Jewish side and by feelings of banality and needs for seeking specialness by association on the non-Jewish side. The lesbian-heterosexual process was characterized by feelings of defiance and needs to exclude on the lesbian side and by feelings of confusion and needs for seeking self-definition through others on the heterosexual side. Participants moved in a direction of greater demands for change, contact with others, self-definition, self-assertion, and choice. Note: This paper was originally published in 1984 as a working paper by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, which later became the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. A revised version of this working paper was later published as:Gail Pheterson. 1986. Alliances between Women: Overcoming Internalized Oppression and Internalized Domination  Signs, 12 (1), pp. 146-160. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174362&nbsp

Le féminisme pris aux pièges

This article sketches the distancing of dominant feminist orientations from the struggle against institutional and ideological sexism, most notably in their collusion with governments to « protect » women against criminal violence, and in their abandon of coalitions between women in the hope of gaining rights as a sexual minority. In the early 1980’s, intense debates ensued between so-called anti-violence/anti-prostitution and pro-rights/pro-sex feminists. Those who championed the cause of sexually transgressive women were identified as sex radicals. Over the past thirty years, anti-violence feminists have succeeded in mainstreaming their objectives in national legislative reforms, NGOs, UN conventions and popular media. Some sex radical feminists, worn down by the complicity of anti-violence crusaders with governments in search of ideological credit to justify discriminatory control of undocumented migrants and illicit revenues, have found a less antagonistic political base in a Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender alliance. This erosion of feminist coalitions, however conflictive they may be, represents a decentering – or erasure – of radical feminism in favour of protectionist reforms, on one side, and integrationist reforms, on the other

Prise en charge de la dépression et évaluation de l'attitude des pharmaciens de Picardie face à la personne dépressive

La dépression est une maladie universelle qui touche toutes les catégories de population. L éducation des patients, le counseling, la collaboration entre professionnels de santé et une meilleure formation des professionnels de santé peuvent améliorer la prise en charge des malades dépressifs. Afin d évaluer l attitude des pharmaciens de Picardie face à la personne dépressive, un questionnaire leur a été distribué. Bien que positifs, les résultats révèlent une différence dans la prise en charge des malades dépressifs par rapport aux malades atteints de maladies physiques. En cause, le manque de temps et le manque de formation sur les maladies mentales notamment. Des solutions doivent être proposées afin d obtenir les mêmes résultats pour la dépression que pour les maladies physiques.AMIENS-BU Santé (800212102) / SudocSudocFranceF

Droit d’asile, migration et prostitution

Pheterson Gail, Mathieu Nicole-Claude. Droit d’asile, migration et prostitution. In: Cahiers du GEDISST (Groupe d'étude sur la division sociale et sexuelle du travail), N°14, 1995. Séminaire 1994-1995. Division du travail, rapports sociaux de sexe et de pouvoir. pp. 57-67