Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of illustrations
Timeline
Glossary
Introduction: Making Waves
MARGARET ATACK, ALISON S. FELL, DIANA HOLMES, IMOGEN LONG
PART 1. THEN: SECOND WAVE FEMINISM IN FRANCE
1. Before Les Femmes s'entêtent: the Bermuda Triangle of French feminism?
SIÂN REYNOLDS
2. 1975: The Year of women
DIANA HOLMES AND IMOGEN LONG
3. From Muse to Insoumuse: Delphine Seyrig, vidéaste
GRACE AN
PART 2. THEN AND NOW: FEMINISM AND PUBLIC ARENAS
4. Work-family reconciliation policy in France: challenging or reinforcing the gender division of domestic and care work since the 1970s?
JAN WINDEBANK
5. Feminist publishing in France 1975 - 2000: a quest for legitimacy
FANNY MAZZONE
6. Parole(s) de femmes: from Le Torchon brûle to Les Nouvelles News
MAGGIE ALLISON
7. Utopian Gaiety: French lesbian activism and the politics of pleasure (1974-2016)
TAMARA CHAPLIN
8. 'La femme du soldat inconnu': Feminism and French lieux de mémoire
ALISON S. FELL
9. A Mediterranean Bazaar : The Bazar du Genre exhibition at the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM) in Marseille, 2013
BRONWYN WINTER
PART 3. NOW: REAPPRAISALS AND NEW AGENDAS
10. Time to laugh or to cry? 'Le Rire de la Méduse' after 40 years
MAIREAD HANRAHAN
11. 'Les hommes et les femmes, c'est vraiment pas pareil' ('Men and women just aren't the same'): Nancy Huston's Passions d'Annie Leclerc
DIANA HOLMES
12. Across the waves: Benoîte Groult, Catel Muller and bande dessinée
IMOGEN LONG
13. Voix blanche? Annie Ernaux, French feminisms and the challenge of intersectionality
LYN THOMAS
14. Third Wave collective manifestos: What do feminists still want?
MICHÈLE SCHAAL
Conclusion
MARGARET ATACK, ALISON S. FELL, DIANA HOLMES, IMOGEN LONG
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
