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Résumé Toute société développe un mode de gestion des sexualités. Pour comprendre les évolutions rapides que l'on a connues depuis une quinzaine d'années, David Paternotte se penche sur les documents des associations gays et lesbiennes qui ont revendiqué la reconnaissance de légale des couples de même sexe et sur les débats parlementaires préalable à l'adoption des lois sur la cohabitation légale et sur l'ouverture du mariage aux homosexuels. Il décortique les argumentations et les représentations des acteurs et met en lumière les normes et les chaînes de valeurs qui les sous-tendent. Au-delà de la diversité des positions, il s'attache à comprendre comment des arguments, comme par exemple le droit à la différence ou l'égalité de traitement, ont été combinés différemment selon les acteurs, voire au service de posi¬tions assez opposées. De même des arguments qui paraissaient à première vue similaires, par exemple sur la valeur du mariage, ont pris un sens extrêmement différent selon les représentations et les normes dans lesquelles ils ont été inscrits. La reconnaissance légale des couples de même sexe est loin d'avoir constitué le seul enjeu. Cette question a entraîné des débats beaucoup plus larges, et qui touchent à des aspects fondamentaux de la vie en société : l'organisation de l'intimité et de la vie relation¬nelle, la division public/privé, la conception, la place et la fonction de la famille, la définition de la laïcité, les limites posées à l'action du législateur et le rôle social du droit.

La question du sexisme dans l'espace public occupe le devant de la scène politique et médiatique. On sait toutefois peu de choses sur la situation en Belgique francophone. Cet ouvrage pionnier offre un regard inédit sur la situation en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Loin de se cantonner à la question du harcèlement sexiste, il analyse comment femmes et hommes expérimentent l'espace public différemment. Il relate aussi plusieurs expériences de terrain visant à un meilleur partage de l'espace public

"The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research."--Publisher's description

This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region. These movements, the book argues, were inspired by specific ideas about Europe, which they sought to realize on the ground through activism

Europe has long been regarded as a unique place for the promotion and furthering of LGBT rights. This important and compelling study investigates the alleged uniqueness and its ties to a relatively long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region. Contributors argue that LGBT movements were inspired by specific ideas about European democratic values and a responsibility towards human rights, and that they sought to realize these on the ground through activism, often crossing borders to foster a wider movement. In making this argument, they discuss the 'idea of Europe' as it relates to LGBT rights, the history of European LGBT movements, the role of European institutions in adopting LGBT policies, and the construction of European 'others' in this process.

This article examines the development of campaigns against "gender ideology" in Europe, leading to the emergence of a specific family of mobilizations that we call anti-gender campaigns. These campaigns, started in the mid-1990s as a Catholic project in reaction to the results of the UN conferences of Cairo and Bejing, but developed significantly in several European countries after crucial encounters with right-wing populism. While recognizing the importance of these crossovers, we contend the interpretation that mobilizations against "gender ideology" and right-wing populism are the two faces of the same coin, and we plead for a more complex understanding of the ways in which distinct—and sometimes competing—projects can converge in specific settings. We argue that research on the "Global Right Wing" should therefore disentangle the various components of this phenomenon, and locate them in concrete settings. We show that this research strategy allows us to better grasp the specificities of each project and the ways in which they interact. Opening our eyes on crucial developments in contemporary Europe, this strategy also prevents researchers from falling into the trap of a global and unqualified backlash against everything achieved in terms of gender and sexuality in the last decades.

Is the feminist project under threat in Europe? This thematic issue addresses the question in both theoretical and empirical ways, focusing on the various ways in which feminist politics are opposed and why, on what the impact of such opposition is, and how to improve our theoretical understanding of this particular manifestation of gender and politics. The issue addresses three major challenges: a need to reflect on the most suited concepts and theories in political and social sciences to understand what is at stake in Europe today; a need to vernacularize existing knowledge while forging global frames of analysis; and a need to avoid the risk of reifying oppositional forces and of reiterating dichotomous frames and categories. The responses to these challenges are: to analyse the threats to the feminist project as parts of larger projects against social justice and equality; to contrast macro narratives by engaging with the microlevel of the anti-feminist project, enabling a critique of mainstream scholarship; to analyse the threats to the feminist project as related to processes of changes to democracy, such as democratic backsliding; to give prominent attention to discursive, epistemic and symbolic processes; and finally to include studies on the response of feminist actors to the threats experienced. This collection of articles offers a variety of perspectives on the various threats to the feminist project in Europe today.