Contenu du sommaire : L'école à l'épreuve de la 'théorie du genre'

This article examines the sexist and racist motives behind the opposition on Twitter to the alleged dissemination of ‘gender theory' in State schools. The analysis of 11,383 tweets published between October 5, 2014 and July 17, 2017 shows that the opposition to ‘gender theory' crystallizes around a public figure constructed as abject: the Ministry of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Opposition to the alleged diffusion of ‘gender theory', is fueled by the opposition to others educational developments, also attributed to the Minister of Education, such as the supposedly compulsory teaching of Arabic in State schools. In this process, the construction of the Minister as an object of hatred illustrates a fear of a ‘threat to Western civilization'. The article concludes that social representations of race and gender which characterize the anti-gender movement have thus enabled the formation of a broad coalition of oppositions to ‘gender theory'.

This article aims to document, at the local level, the positions of the school's stakeholders about the call for a day of withdrawal from school, in the name of opposing ‘gender theory'. While the issue at the heart of the controversy is sexual education at school, which seems to entail a possible destabilization of heteronormativity, the initiative to withdraw children from public school to contest public programs promoting gender equality also plays out the tension between the respective educational roles of school and family, and raises the question of citizenship in the context of race relations. This results in the creation of an alternative public space where democratic debate occurs, at the margins of the school institution.

Based on a qualitative survey of primary school teachers, this article examines the impact on teaching practices of the gender theory controversy in State schools. The article shows that this controversy, while it may have slowed down the implementation of certain pro-equality initiatives within schools, has failed to disrupt routinized teaching practices, due to a general lack of support and adhesion among teachers to the political messages conveyed by the various components of the anti-same sex marriage protest movement — La Manif pour tous. Teachers' attitudes vis-à-vis the anti-gender movement fuels a distancing of the school institution from the idea that ‘gender theory' is a social problem.

During the 2012-2013 school year, a conservative movement against same-sex marriage affiliated with the Manif pour tous — the prominent anti-same sex marriage movement — developed in Martinique. Based on a participative research within the School Academy of Martinique Gender Equality mission, and a field study conducted on the movement against equal marriage rights in Martinique, this article observes the impact of this local movement on school projects in favor of gender equality.

This article deals with an iconic figure in children's literature: the Countess of Ségur (1799-1874), whose career began at the age of 56, in the context of the French Second Empire hostile to women's artistic production. At the crossroads of the sociology of literature and gender studies, this article aims to understand the symbolic and material dimensions of the Countess writing practices. This article reveals the structural obstacles encountered by the Countess as well as how she subjectively addressed them. From this case study, the article analyzes the social determinants of a female destiny in literature.

This article examines the process of reading medical images and how the body is read and made readable by the observer. In particular, it analyzes the ways in which radiographs reveal sexual difference and produce, by gendering it, biological bodies in a dichotomous way based on gender oppositions. By examining the relationship between women and medical imaging techniques from a gender perspective, the aim of this article is to examine how the practice of radiography in a ‘pre-ultrasound' era reduced women's bodies to pregnant bodies and how they were represented by a set of sexual organs and measurable parts.

This article studies the vocabulary of insults experienced in public spaces. Using textual analysis tools, he objective is to identify the repertoires and representations used to insult anonymous by-standers in public spaces. What repertoires are being used? What terms and representations are perceived as shocking? Are they the same or polarized according to the gender of the persons insulted? That of the authors? To answer these questions, we study the answers to an open-ended question about the terms of the most recent insult to which respondents were subjected in public spaces, as reported in the Cadre de vie et sécurité (‘Living Environment and Safety') surveys conducted from 2008 to 2012.

Based on group interviews conducted in Ivory Coast, this article examines gender relations in rural areas based on the experiences of villagers from two of the country's major ethnic groups in the south: the Akans and the Krous. At the crossroads of decolonial feminist theories and postcolonial third-space theorizing, the article examines the identity strategies that shape the social constructions of gender equality and access to land. From the cultural hybridity of these representations emerges a dynamic of negotiations with ambivalences, resistances, and encounters, which testifies of a reframing of power relations in the making.

The status of migrant women and the impact of immigration policies in terms of granting legal status determine the economic, social, and sometimes health conditions of women affected by HIV as well as their social relations. The difficulties of acquiring a residence permit, obstacles to professional activity, and forms of discrimination linked to being HIV-positive make the risks of precariousness, exclusion, and exploitation related to gender and origin more acute. Based on a qualitative fieldwork conducted in Switzerland, this article describes the typical trajectory of an HIV-positive sub-Saharan woman caught in the chain of forms of migration-related domination. The intersectional analysis of this journey highlights the interdependence of forms of inequality and the effect of these inequalities on the trajectories of migrant HIV-positive women.