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French Feminism
An Indian Anthology
First Edition
Edited by:
- Danielle Haase-Dubosc - Columbia University Centre, Paris
- Mary E John - Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, India
- Marcelle Marini - University of Paris, Paris
- Rama Melkote - ANVESHI Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad
- Susie Tharu - Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad
December 2002 | 448 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
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.
PART ONE: THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN FRANCE
Introduction
Simone de Beauvoir
Introduction to Women Are Becoming Headstrong
Fran[ci]coise Picq
A French Feminism
Claude Lesselier
Lesbian Groups in the Parisian Feminist Movement
| Positions and Problems, 1970-1982 |
Marie-Jo Bonnet
Lesbianism and Feminism
| The Stakes of Freedom |
Beatrice Slama
When Speaking and Writing Was Every Woman's Business...
PART TWO: WOMEN AND CREATIVITY
Introduction
Suzanne More and Jeanne Soquet
Stifled Creation
H[ac]el[ge]ene Cixous
From the Scene of the Subconscious to the Stage of History
| A Writer's Path |
Monique Wittig
Prologue to the French Edition of Djuna Barnes's La Passion
Christine Plant[ac]e
Balzac's Little Sister
Marcelle Marini
From Minority Creation to Universal Creation
PART THREE: WRITING HISTORY/REWRITING HISTORY
Introduction
Olympe de Gouges
The Rights of Woman
Michelle Perrot
Democracy without Women
| A Basic History of a French Specificity |
Elizabeth Sledziewski
The Misleading Universality of the 1789 Revolution
Danielle Haase-Dubosc
On the Nature of Women and Its Compatibility with the Exercise of Power in Seventeenth Century France
Michelle Riot-Sarcey
On Political History and Power
| From Positivism to Michel Foucault |
PART FOUR: INTEGRATION/EXCLUSION: RACE/CLASS/GENDER
Introduction
Ghaiss Jasser
The Twin Evils of the Veil
Gita Srinivasan
An Interview with Souad Benani
Malika Bentaib
Foreign Women in France
Fran[ci]coise Dasques
Women and Poverty
Marie-Jos[gr]ephe Dhavernas
Sexism and Racism
| Referent and Dominant |
PART FIVE: LEGAL BODIES/WOMEN'S BODIES
Introduction
Anne Zelinski
The League of Women's Rights
R[ac]egine Dhoquois
Can There Be a Gendered Social Contract?
H[ac]el[gr]ene Rouch
New Reproductive Techniques
| From Difference to Inequality |
Marie-Victoire Louis
The European Conference on Trafficking in Women
| Towards the Legal Recognition of Procuring |
PART SIX: OCCUPYING/CAPTURING POLITICAL SPACE
Introduction
Mariette Sineau
The MLF's Contribution to the Political Scene
| An Unacknowledged Debt |
Fran[ci]coise Gaspard
From Non-Segregation to Parity
Huguette Bouchardeau
A Political Journey
Helena Hirata et al
Parity or Non-Segregation (Mixit[ac]e)?
PART SEVEN: FEMINISTS DEFETISHIZE THEORY
Introduction
Mich[gr]ele le Doeuff
From Existentialism to The Second Sex
Catherine Baliteau
The End of a Misogynist Parade
| Lacanian Psychoanalysis |
Fran[ci]coise Collin
The Philosopher in Drag or the Feminine without Women
Eleni Varikas
Feminism, Modernity, Postmodernism
| For a Dialogue across the Ocean |
PART EIGHT: FEMINIST MAPPINGS
Introduction
Luce Irigaray
Feminine Identity
| Biology or Social Conditioning? |
Christine Delphy
Thinking Gender
| What Are the Problems? |
Nicole-Claude Mathieu
When Yielding Does Not Mean Consenting
Colette Guillaumin
Women and Social Theory