基本説明
Provides a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature, sociology, cinema, theatre, journalism, and politics.
Full Description
This volume, a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature, sociology, cinema, theatre, journalism, and politics, covers a number a of recent and crucial developments in the field of French Feminisms that have made a reassessment necessary. Beyond French Feminisms proposes to answer the question: what is new in French Feminism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? The essays reflect the shift from the theoretical and philosophical approaches that characterized feminism twenty years ago, to the more social and political questions of today. Topics include: the 'parité' and PACS debates, the France-USA dialogue, the 'multicultural' issues, and the new trends in literature and film by women.
Contents
POLITICS AND SOCIETY The Turning Point of Feminism: Against the Effacement of Women; S.Agacinski Symbolic Violence; P.Bourdieu Exclusive Democracy: A French Paradigm; G.Fraisse The Politics of PACs in a Transatlantic Mirror: Same-sex Unions and Sexual Difference in France; E.Fassin The History of Women after the Law on Parity; C.Fauré The Headscarf and the Republic; F.Gaspard & F.Khosrokhavar The Feminization of Professional Names: A Crime of lese-majeste; B.Groult The Politics of Reproduction; J.Mossuz-Laveau Sexualities on Parade; V.Nahoum-Grappe New Gendered Mosaics: Their Mothers and the Gauls; M.Rosello 'Parity' in Politics: From a Radical Idea to a Consensual Reform; M.Sineau 'Les Chiennes de Garde': Manifesto ARTS AND LITERATURE Unmasked!; H.Cixous Francophone Women Writers in France in the Nineties; O.Cazenave Body as Subject: Women Making Art; W.Chadwick Marguerite's Nieces: Women's Novels at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century; C.Cusset The Embrasure of the World: Women in Contemporary French Poetry; M.Etienne Profile of a Filmmaker: Catherine Breillat; A.Gillain Women making Films in the 1990s; G.Sellier FRANCE - USA Debate. Women: A French Singularity? The French Exception; E.Badinter Vive la différence; J.Scott Counting the Days; M.Ozouf Mid-life Narratives and the Bicultural Dilemma; I.de Courtivron The Invention of French Feminism: An Essential Move; C.Delphy Lacan and American Feminism: Who is the Analyst?; J.Feher Gurewich French Feminism: Made in America; C.Goldberg-Moses The Symptom of 'American-style Feminism'; J.Mathy
