Contemporary French Feminism [Paperback]

Have we entered a historical moment of post-feminism? This volume presents a timely and convincing no. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual.

Introduction: The Swell of the Third Wave,Lisa Walsh
1. Difference/Indifference Between the Sexes,Fran?oise Collin
2. A Deceptive Universalism,Gis?le Halimi
3. Versions of Difference,Sylviane Agacinski
4. Masculine/Feminine: The Thought of the Difference,Fran?oise H?ritier
5. A Little Learning: Women and (Intellectual) Work,Mich?le Le Doeuff
6. The Meaning of Equality,Julia Kristeva
7. The Difference Between the Sexes, an Historical Difference,Genevi?ve Fraisse
8. Genealogy of Masculinity,Monique Schneider
9. The Excess Visibility of an Invisible Sex or the Privileges of the Shapeless,Claire Nahon
10. The Prescribed Sex,Sabine Prokhoris
11. Is Love a Place of Sexuated Knowledge,Alain Badiou
12. It is Necessary to Look for the Universal in the Difference Between the Sexes,Monique David-M?nard

Kelly Oliveris W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her publications includeThe Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory(2004) andNoir Anxiety: Race, Sex and Maternity in Film Noir, co-authored with Benigno Trigo (2002).

Lisa Walshis a Lecturer in French at Nottingham Trent University. Her publications includeSubjects of Love and Desire: Readings in Maternity and Ethicity(forthcoming).