1st Edition

Sex In Question French Feminism

Edited By Lisa Adkins, Diana Leonard Copyright 1996
    224 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    224 Pages
    by Taylor & Francis

    First published in 1996. Since the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", French feminist thought has informed and shaped the on-going debates in the English-speaking world. This book introduces English speakers to the work of a major group of French feminists - those de Beauvoir herself supported.

    Re/constructing French Feminism, Lisa Adkins and Diana Leonard; the Category of Sex, Monique Witting; The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature, Collete Guillaumin; Our Costs and Their Benefits, Monique Plaza; Natural Fertility and Forced Reproduction, Paola Tabet; Sexualised/Sexed/or Sex- Class Indentity?, Nicole-Claude Mathieu; Rethinking Sex and Gender, Christine Delphy.

    Biography

    Adkins, Lisa; Leonard, Diana