French feminist theory : an introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | Cavallaro, Dani. |
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| Imprint: | New York ; London : Continuum, 2003. |
| Description: | xvii, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5146178 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. French Feminist Theory: Backgrounds and Contexts
- Beginnings
- Existentialism and Simone de Beauvoir
- 1968 and Beyond: the MLF and its Discontents
- Structuralism, Poststructuralism and Psychoanalysis
- Contemporary French Feminism: Trends and Debates
- Chapter 2. Sexual and Gendered Identities
- Sex and Gender: Some Definitions
- 'Gender Precedes Sex': Materialist Analyses of the Construction of Sexual Difference
- Equality versus Difference: Unpicking the Symbolic Order
- Chapter 3. Language and the Subject
- Signs in Question: Addressing Linguistic Stereotypes
- Subjects-in-Process: Julia Kristeva's Philosophy of Language
- Patriarchal Philosophy, Feminine Language: Symbolic Norms and their Transgression
- Chapter 4. Patriarchal Institutions
- The Home and the Market: Domestic and Economic Appropriations of Femininity
- Decoding the Codes: Laws, Rituals, Customs
- Unequipped to Think, Born to Swot: Women, Philosophy and Education
- Chapter 5. Writing and the Body
- Reinventing Language?
- Ecriture Feminine: Irigaray's and Cixous's Psycholinguistic Perspectives
- Inscriptions of the Body
- Chapter 6. Power, Race and the Stranger
- Sexism and Racism
- The Stranger Within
- Feminism and Algeria
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Anglo-American Connections
- References
- Index
