There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing coming of age in samoa a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation as the reading material.

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilization

Sports and physical activities are ideal fields to study gender construction. Much research aims at shedding light on these processes. Women involved in ‘male’ sports have been extensively studied, and mixed-sex activities have sometimes been used to support these studies, but research has rarely focused on populations of disabled athletes. Yet, the phenomenon of gender construction takes on a particular meaning in the context of disability, insofar as the relations between sports, gender and disability raise the issues of production and negotiation of bodily norms in a specific way. We will try to understand this gender construction phenomenon through the study of ten French powerchair football players, with whom we conducted a participant observation over two and a half years, as well as in-depth interviews. We will pay particular attention to the case of three sportswomen who competed in an almost exclusively male champion ship. We will see that these women are confronted with a dilemma: going against ...

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Disabled sportswomen and gender construction in powerchair football

Le rayonnement et l�ancrage du sport au sein de l�Education Physique et Sportive (EPS), ne font aucun doute.
Neanmoins, cette legitimation socioculturelle ne doit pas pour autant rejeter dans l�ombre les autres categories
d�activites physiques (jeux traditionnels ou activites sportives de loisirs), qui peuvent egalement tenir un role
educatif interessant en fonction des objectifs pedagogiques vises. En fait, les resultats de differentes
recherches, menees sur le terrain de l�EPS, nous ont conduits a penser qu�il existerait trois types de logiques
dans lesquelles s�insere le choix des pratiques physiques a l�ecole : une logique institutionnelle (la reference
au sport) ; une logique de legitimation et/ou de prestige ; enfin, une logique pragmatique qui tient compte
des contraintes environnementales et pedagogiques des enseignants. Dans ce dernier cas de figure, nous
constatons que les enseignants transforment la logique interne de certains sports a des fins pedagogiques.
Nous nommerons jeux didactiques ces activites singulieres qui supplantent le sport au cours des seances
d�EPS.

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Des pratiques sociales aux pratiques scolaires en EPS: des logiques de scolarisation plurielles

Transfert d'apprentissage et domaines d'action motrice

The aim of this study deals with praxis communication mechanisms that are at the heart of motor playfulness interactions formed in the practice of volleyball. This research perspective offers the opportunity to better grasp and understand the motor behavior of players that are shaping a social motor skills network revolving around cooperative and adversarial. From there, it seemed interesting to study the content of practicing volleyball at both high-level and at school. The joint communication network of sport is built on the frame of observable motor behavior of practitioners. Results revealed that within high-level sports, motor interactions of players are based on praxis communication networks being richer within school and club volleyball, thus highlighting links of opposition and cooperation around diverse and under-privileged social motor skills roles. In this context, we are questioning whether the technocratic and traditional approach of Volleyball is preferred over the approach of motor semiotic based on the study of motor behavior of practitioners and the praxis communication.

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Body Interaction and Semiotic Approach in Volleyball School Education: Case of Tunisia

The implementation of wireless electronic simulation signals, as an approach for visual searching behavior recognition, is not a straightforward task. This paper discusses modeling human interactions in a real game by wireless electronic visual stimuli, which could led Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers in sports science and education science to take benefits from using electronic models, stimuli and measure features. Methodology standardization would allow the comparison of results, the reliability of findings and the easy integration of the various behavior recognition systems created. The aim of this paper is: First, to present a leading validation experimental process for B-percept behavior modeling and decision- making and assessing system. Second, to provide directions on which the future research efforts, for modeling and assessing behavior, using HCI should be focused on.

Éric Dugas

Papers

Disabled sportswomen and gender construction in powerchair football

Des pratiques sociales aux pratiques scolaires en EPS: des logiques de scolarisation plurielles

Transfert d'apprentissage et domaines d'action motrice

Body Interaction and Semiotic Approach in Volleyball School Education: Case of Tunisia

A Smart Wireless System for Modeling Visual Searching Behavior and Assessing Reaction Time in Sports and Rehabilitation Activities