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In France, the DSK scandal made possible in 2011 a new awareness of sexual violence, but also, paradoxically, a controversy regarding seduction -- launched in the name of a so-called "feminism a la francaise", which has been presented since the 1990s as a countermodel to American feminism, accused of conflating violence and seduction. Should feminism, in reaction, abandon seduction to antifeminists? This text explores the opposite approach: thinking about seduction implies moving beyond consent. It is not about the individual, whether free or not, but rather about the subject (in Foucault's sense) constituted through a power relation. Far from denying domination, we must develop erotics exploring this "problem". Politically, a feminist theory of seduction could only make feminism more desirable. Adapted from the source document.

Examines how Western feminist theorists have conceptualized ambiguous concepts of sex & gender, introducing new & complex ideas from Joan Scott, Seyla Benhabib, & Iris Marion Young. Adapted from the source document.

In this article I explore how the 'intersectional shift' in feminist theory looks from Latin America and how can we rethink intersectionality from a politics of knowledge anchored in local Latin American history, as well as in the experience lived by men and women on this continent. In order to do so, I retrace the genealogy of approaches called intersectional, including the contributions of Latin American feminists; I identify some of the main lines of the debate around intersectionality to show its influence, but also its limits, associated largely with its spread and lastly, I use my own research to emphasize the theoretical and critical significance of a localized and contextualized intersectionality. Adapted from the source document.

This article aims to construe the movie In the Valley of Elah from a feminist theoretical perspective of International security, in order to uncover the gender and race relations underlying the construction of different masculinities within discourses and narratives on militarization, war and international security; particularly in the context of the war in Iraq and the cultural productions recounting that conflict. In fact, while the movie is critical towards the war in Iraq, the Issue is whether these criticisms have led to a real deconstruction of gendered and racialized discourses legitimizing and enabling militarization and wars, or if those discourses, even when criticized, are reproduced by the narratives related to this conflict. The article sustains that the main character's hegemonic masculinity is constructed in opposition to the perverted masculinity of young soldiers, perversion caused by the war in Iraq, restricting the critique to this war in particular rather than war in general. Adapted from the source document.