Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture (A Hypatia Book)

"... Fraser and Bartky have brought the encounter between U.S. and French feminism to a new level of seriousness." -- EthicsIn 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. 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 -- 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 French Feminism : Toward An Adequate Political Psychology / Dorothy Leland -- Subversion Of Women's Agency In Psychoanalytic Feminism : Chodorow, Flax, Kristeva / Diana T. Meyers -- Body Politics Of Julia Kristeva / Judith Butler -- Uses And Abuses Of French Discourse Theories For Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser. Edited By Nancy Fraser And Sandra Lee Bartky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. " . . . 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 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.