Language and Sexual Difference: Feminist Writing in FranceAn accessible introduction to French feminist theory and contemporary French women's writing for non-French speakers. The book offers a context to this challenging, controversial body of work by giving clear accounts of the philosophical, post-structural and psychoanalytic debates which have had such an impact on French intellectual life in recent years, and to which French feminist writers offer a response. |
Contents
Women and language | 19 |
The feminine unconscious | 39 |
Theories of sexual difference | 71 |
A womans language? | 95 |
Towards an écriture féminine | 131 |
Notes and references | 163 |
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