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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778401403321

Titolo

Contemporary French feminism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kelly Oliver and Lisa Walsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-383-03863-5

1-280-90476-3

1-282-32817-4

0-19-153019-0

1-4356-0704-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Oxford readings in feminism

Altri autori (Persone)

OliverKelly <1958->

WalshLisa <1965-> (Lisa Mae-Helen)

Disciplina

305.42/0944

Soggetti

Feminism - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Swell of the Third Wave; 1. Difference/Indifference between the Sexes; 2. A Deceptive Universalism; 3. Versions of Difference; 4. Masculine/Feminine: The Thought of the Difference; 5. A Little Learning: Women and (Intellectual) Work; 6. The Meaning of Equality; 7. The Difference between the Sexes, a Historical Difference; 8. Genealogy of Masculinity; 9. The Excess Visibility of an Invisible Sex or the Privileges of the Formless; 10. The Prescribed Sex; 11. Is Love a Place of Sexuated Knowledge?

12. Is it Necessary to Look for the Universal in the Difference between the Sexes?Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual. - ;Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This



volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women wh