Motherhood and Sexuality in Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Regulating Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Sexuality and Medically Assisted Reproduction in Portugal

This article analyses juridical discourses about Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in Portugal, focusing specifically on the access of lesbians to this type of intervention. Empirical data refer to an exploratory research that combined the analysis of legislation with non-directive interviews to five judges from Family and Juvenile Courts of Law of the Northern Region of Portugal. One argue...

Girls Just Want to Have Fun? Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Motherhood among Bolivian Teenagers

évocation explicite et implicite de la mort dans madame bovary de flaubert

cet article envisage d'étudier les moyens, explicites et implicites, dont se sert flaubert, dans madame bovary, pour introduire la mort. nous avons eu recours à l'analyse du discours, comme méthode et outil d'étude pour découvrir comment flaubert développe la mort à travers les représentations lexicales (explicites) et le champ sémantique (implicite).pour ce faire, les personnages, en particuli...

Enriching Historical Manuscripts: The Bovary Project

In this paper we describe the Bovary Project, a manuscripts digitization project of the famous French writer Gustave FLAUBERT first great work, which should end in 2006 by providing an online access to an hypertextual edition of ”Madame Bovary” drafts set. We first develop the global context of this project, the main objectives, and then focus particularly on the document analysis problem. Fina...

Ann Trow (Madame Restell) (1812?1878)

Self-proclaimed female physician Ann Trow was a women?s reproductive health specialist as well as an abortion [3] provider in New York City, New York during the mid 1800s. Although she had no formal medical training or background, Trow provided women with healthcare and abortions under the alias Madame Restell. Restell gained attention across the United States for her career as a professional a...