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French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second
Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year
for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of
the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from
the perspective of both preceding and subsequent 'waves' of
feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their
strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures
have come into play. Edited and written by an international group
of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a
vital moment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the
relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist
politics and culture.
French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second
Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year
for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of
the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from
the perspective of both preceding and subsequent 'waves' of
feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their
strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures
have come into play. Edited and written by an international group
of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a
vital moment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the
relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist
politics and culture.
This volume explores contemporary French women's writing through
the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the
writings of the 1970s that came to be known as "French feminism".
With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a
sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and
textuality, Helene Cixous and others became internationally
recognised for their work, at a time when the women's movement was
also a driving force for social change. Taking its cue from Les
Femmes s'entetent, a multi-authored analysis of the situation of
women and a celebration of women's creativity, this collection
offers new readings of Monique Wittig, Emma Santos and Helene
Cixous, followed by essays on Nina Bouraoui, Michele Perrein and
Ying Chen, Marguerite Duras and Mireille Best, and Valentine Goby.
A contextualising introduction establishes the theoretical and
cultural framework of the volume with a critical re-evaluation of
this key moment in the history of feminist thought and women's
writing, pursuing its various legacies and examining the ways
theoretical and empirical developments in queer studies,
postcolonial studies and postmodernist philosophies have extended,
inflected and challenged feminist work.
This volume is based on papers given at the biennial Women in
French conference held in Leeds in May 2011. Drawing on a range of
interconnecting disciplines and forms of cultural production, it
explores the relationship between French and Francophone women and
the material world. Bringing together researchers from the United
Kingdom, France and other Francophone countries, the book reflects
the engagement of women researchers with contemporary debates. The
first section focuses on the female body, examining dance and the
performing arts but also the material objectification suffered by
rape victims in France. The next highlights the contradictions of
the im/materiality of the body, the act of writing and the text, in
terms of dichotomies, permeable identities and fluid boundaries.
The third section turns its attention to the practicalities of 'the
material' in relation to women's engagement with the economy - the
gendering of domestic work, women's discourse, the precariousness
of women's employment and the alienating impersonality of consumer
spaces. The concluding section considers the relationship of the
female body to the material object, whether subverting, co-opting
or indeed absorbing it. In the final chapters of the book the
tactile and the visual converge in explorations of 'the material'
in cinematic representations of the female body.
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