La puissance de la non-fiction créative au service d’un féminisme balbutiant.

Mencé-Caster, Corinne. 2018. Le talisman de la présidente. Paris : Écriture.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the characteristics of an experience of institutional violence suffered by a woman who became president of the University of the West Indies and Guiana. The use of creative non-fiction allows to denounce the systematic exclusion of women from the spheres of power in the West Indies. [...]

Feminist and Queer Repoliticizations of the Brain.

The historical relationship between biology and feminist politics is one of proximity and distance, tensions and contradictions. This is particularly obvious in the current golden age of neuroscience, when arguments supporting sexism, the inevitability of the sex/gender difference, the equalization of sexuality with heterosexuality and much more are reformulated based on the findings from brain research. In this paper, we examine the specific entanglements of brain science and feminism and identify three main directions which are “destabilizations”, “reconstructions”, and [...]