French Feminism

PART ONE: THE WOMEN′S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IN FRANCE
Introduction
Introduction to Women Are Becoming Headstrong - Simone de Beauvoir
A French Feminism - Fran[ci]coise Picq
Lesbian Groups in the Parisian Feminist Movement - Claude Lesselier
Positions and Problems, 1970-1982
Lesbianism and Feminism - Marie-Jo Bonnet
The Stakes of Freedom
When Speaking and Writing Was Every Woman′s Business... - Beatrice Slama
PART TWO: WOMEN AND CREATIVITY
Introduction
Stifled Creation - Suzanne More and Jeanne Soquet
From the Scene of the Subconscious to the Stage of History - H[ac]el[ge]ene Cixous
A Writer′s Path
Prologue to the French Edition of Djuna Barnes′s La Passion - Monique Wittig
Balzac′s Little Sister - Christine Plant[ac]e
From Minority Creation to Universal Creation - Marcelle Marini
PART THREE: WRITING HISTORY/REWRITING HISTORY
Introduction
The Rights of Woman - Olympe de Gouges
Democracy without Women - Michelle Perrot
A Basic History of a French Specificity
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 - Michelle Riot-Sarcey
From Positivism to Michel Foucault
PART FOUR: 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 - Fran[ci]coise Dasques
Sexism and Racism - Marie-Jos[gr]ephe Dhavernas
Referent and Dominant
PART FIVE: LEGAL BODIES/WOMEN′S BODIES
Introduction
The League of Women′s Rights - Anne Zelinski
Can There Be a Gendered Social Contract? - R[ac]egine Dhoquois
New Reproductive Techniques - H[ac]el[gr]ene Rouch
From Difference to Inequality
The European Conference on Trafficking in Women - Marie-Victoire Louis
Towards the Legal Recognition of Procuring
PART SIX: OCCUPYING/CAPTURING POLITICAL SPACE
Introduction
The MLF′s Contribution to the Political Scene - Mariette Sineau
An Unacknowledged Debt
From Non-Segregation to Parity - Fran[ci]coise Gaspard
A Political Journey - Huguette Bouchardeau
Parity or Non-Segregation (Mixit[ac]e)? - Helena Hirata et al
PART SEVEN: FEMINISTS DEFETISHIZE THEORY
Introduction
From Existentialism to The Second Sex - Mich[gr]ele le Doeuff
The End of a Misogynist Parade - Catherine Baliteau
Lacanian Psychoanalysis
The Philosopher in Drag or the Feminine without Women - Fran[ci]coise Collin
Feminism, Modernity, Postmodernism - Eleni Varikas
For a Dialogue across the Ocean
PART EIGHT: FEMINIST MAPPINGS
Introduction
Feminine Identity - Luce Irigaray
Biology or Social Conditioning?
Thinking Gender - Christine Delphy
What Are the Problems?
When Yielding Does Not Mean Consenting - Nicole-Claude Mathieu
Women and Social Theory - Colette Guillaumin