File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1996/96-06-15.140, message 263


From: MDorenkamp-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:19:51 -0400
Subject: french feminism/histories


as someone requested, i am posting the suggestions i received in response to
my request for both traditional and intellectual histories of french
feminism.  paranthetical comments are from the people who suggested the
title(s).  

again, thanks to everyone who responded. /md
______________________

(movements/figures history):
Garcia, Sandrine, "Project for a Symbolic Revolution: The Rise and Fall of
the Women's Movement in France" in _The South Atlantic Quarterly_ Vol. 93 No.
4, Fall 1994: 825-70.  

_Feminism in France: From May '68 to Mitterand_, by Claire Duchen (Routledge
and Kegan Paul,1986). ("Duchen both discusses major figures and events and
provides a good introduction to the intellectual/theoretical issues that
shaped the "movement(s)." I highly recommend it, and think it would be a
terrific book to teach to undergrads--and will use it that way myself if it
stays in print.")

(political/intellectual history):
Rosi Braidotti, _Patterns of Dissonance_ 

(political/intellectual/theoretical discussions):
Liz Grosz, _Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminisms_ (on Kristeva,
Irigaray, and LeDoeuff, "Not a history of French 
feminist politics but an account of the Western philosophical context of
'French feminism' as consumed in an Anglophone context."); _Volatile Bodies_;
_Space Time and Perversion_ (these are "more about the implications of French
philosophy on the feminism of the body rather than a history of the theories
or theorists themselves")

(on specific thinkers):
Kelly Oliver on Kristeva
Liz Grosz, _Jacques Lacan_

(on feminisms crossing cultures):
"Transfeminisms" by Francoise Meltzer, in _Transfigurations: Theology and the
French Feminists_, ed. by C. W. Kim et. al.



   

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