Contemporary French Feminism

Zusatztext ...offer[s] interested readers a wide spectrum of views and arguments that are likely to challenge them to review their own position regarding sexual difference, masculinity and feminism's future. Informationen zum Autor Kelly Oliver is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University. Her publications include The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory (2004) and Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex and Maternity in Film Noir, co-authored with Benigno Trigo (2002).Lisa Walsh teaches French at Madawaska High School in Maine. She previously taught French at Southwestern University and The University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Subjects of Love and Desire: Readings in Maternity and Ethicity (forthcoming). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Demonstrates 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Swell of the Third Wave 1: Françoise Collin: Difference/Indifference Between the Sexes 2: Giséle Halimi: A Deceptive Universalism 3: Sylviane Agacinski: Versions of Difference 4: Françoise Héritier: Masculine/Feminine: The Thought of the Difference 5: Michèle Le Doeuff: A Little Learning: Women and (Intellectual) Work 6: Julia Kristeva: The Meaning of Equality 7: Geneviève Fraisse: The Difference Between the Sexes, an Historical Difference 8: Monique Schneider: Genealogy of Masculinity 9: Claire Nahon: The Excess Visibility of an Invisible Sex or the Privileges of the Shapeless 10: Sabine Prokhoris: The Prescribed Sex 11: Alain Badiou: Is Love a Place of Sexuated Knowledge 12: Monique David-Ménard: It is Necessary to Look for the Universal in the Difference Between the Sexes ...

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Walsh Oliver
• Assisted by: Kelly Oliver (Editor), Lisa Walsh (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780199248346
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924834-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Readings in Feminism; Oxford Readings in Feminism (P; Oxford Readings in Feminism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; France, PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th Century, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity