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This remarkable anthology of 36 texts, freshly translated for this volume, vividly maps the terrain of French feminism in its contemporary context from the 1970s onwards. Bringing together the seminal writings of both scholars and activists, the volume will help readers to grasp the questions, the challenges, and the progress of reflection. This absorbing volume gives voice to the extraordinary range of contemporary French feminism. Each section is preceded by an introduction which places the contributions in their material and social contexts to show how French feminism has evolved in response to concrete struggles and institutional constraints as much as to sophisticated intellectual discourse.
Table of Contents
Indian and French Feminisms: A Common Introduction for Two Feminist Locations
An Introduction by the French Editors
I. THE WOMEN`S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN FRANCE: Introduction
Introduction to Women are Becoming Headstrong SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
A French Feminism FRANCOISE PICQ
Lesbian Groups in the Parisian Feminist Movement: Positions and Problems, 1970-1982 CLAUDIE LESSELIER
Lesbianism and Feminism: The Stakes of Freedom MARIE-JO BONNET
When Speaking and Writing was Every Woman`s Business BEATRICE SLAMA
II. WOMEN AND CREATIVITY: Introduction
Stifled Creation SUZANNE MORE and JEANNE SOQUET
From the Scene of the Subconscious to the Stage of History: A Writer`s Path HELENE CIXOUS
Prologue to the French Edition of Djuna Barnes`s La Passion MONIQUE WITTIG
Balzac`s Little Sister CHRISTINE PLANTE
From Minority Creation to Universal Creation MARCELLE MARINI
III. WRITING HISTORYREWRITING HISTORY: Introduction: The Rights of Woman OLYMPE DE GOUGES
Democracy without Women: A Basic History of a French Specificity MICHELLE PERROT
The Misleading Universality of the 1789 Revolution ELIZABETH SLEDZIEWSKI
On the Nature of Women and its Compatibility with the Exercise of Power in Seventeenth Century France DANIELLE HAASE-DUBOSC
On Political History and Power: From Positivism to Michel Foucault MICHELLE RIOT-SARCEY
IV. INTEGRATION/EXCLUSION: RACE/CLASS/GENDER: Introduction
The Twin Evils of the Veil GHAISS JASSER
An Interview with Souad Benani GITA SRINIVASAN
Foreign Women in France MALIKA BENTAIB
Women and Poverty FRANCOISE DASQUES
Sexism and Racism: Referent and Dominant MARIE-JOSEPHE DHAVERNAS
V. LEGAL BODIES/WOMEN`S BODIES: Introduction
The League of Women`s Rights ANNE ZELINSKI
Can There be a Gendered Social Contract? REGINE DHOQUOIS
New Reproductive Techniques: From Difference to Inequality HELENE ROUCH
The European Conference on Trafficking in Women: Towards the Legal Recognition of Procuring MARIE-VICTOIRE LOUIS
VI. OCCUPYINGCAPTURING POLITICAL SPACE: Introduction
The MLF`s Contribution to the Political Scene: An Unacknowledged Debt MARIETTE SINEAU
From Non-Segregation to Parity FRANCOISE GASPARD
A Political Journey HUGUETTE BOUCHARDEAU
Parity or Non-Segregation (Mixite)? HELENA HIRATA, DANIELE KERGOAT, MICHELLE RIOT-SARCEY and ELENI VARIKAS
VII. FEMINISTS DEFETISHIZE THEORY: Introduction
From Existentialism to The Second Sex MICHELE LE DOEUFF
The End of a Misogynist Parade: Lacanian Psychoanalysis CATHERINE BALITEAU
The Philosopher in Drag or the Feminine Without Women FRANCOISE COLLIN
Feminism, Modernity, Post-Modernism: For a Dialogue across the Ocean ELENI VARIKAS
VIII. FEMINIST MAPPINGS: Introduction
Feminine Identity: Biology or Social Conditioning? LUCE IRIGARAY
Thinking Gender: What are the Problems? CHRISTINE DELPHY
When Yielding Does Not Mean Consenting NICOLE-CLAUDE MATHIEU
Women and Social Theory COLETTE GUILLAUMIN
IndexISBN - 9780761996972
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Pages : 452
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