Sex In Question: French Feminism

by Lisa Adkins (Editor), Diana Leonard (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748402946
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/15/1996
Series:	Gender and Society Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adkins, Lisa; Leonard, Diana

Table of Contents

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.