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"... Fraser and Bartky have brought the encounter between U.S. and French feminism to a new level of seriousness."
Synopsis
..". Fraser and Bartky have brought the encounter between U.S. and French feminism to a new level of seriousness." --Ethics
In the last decade, elements of French feminist discourse have permeated and transformed the larger feminist culture in the United States. This volume is the first sustained attempt to revalue French feminism and answer the question: What has been gained and what has been lost as a result of this intercultural encounter?
Interviews with Simone de Beauvoir open the book; essays by French feminists Sarah Kofman and Luce Irigaray follow; the North American contributors are Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Diana J. Fuss, Nancy J. Holland, Eleanor H. Kuykendall, Dorothy Leland, Diana T. Meyers, Andrea Nye, and Margaret A. Simons.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Nancy Fraser
Two Interviews with Simone de Beauvoir: Margaret A. Simons
Introduction to Kofman's "Rousseau's Phallocratic Ends": Nancy J. Holland
Rousseau's Phallocratic Ends: Sarah Kofman
Introduction to "Sorcerer Love" by Luce Irigaray: Eleanor H. Kuykendall
Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech: Luce Irigaray
Diotima's Speech: Luce Irigaray
The Hidden Host: Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium: Andrea Nye
Essentially Speaking: Luce Irigaray's Language of Essence: Diana J. Fuss
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Frech Feminism: Toward an Adequate Political Psychology: Dorothy Leland
The Subversion of Women's Agency in Psychoanalytic Feminism: Chodorow, Flax, Kristeva: Diana T. Myers
The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva
Judith Butler
The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics: Nancy Fraser
Contributors
Index