Contemporary French Feminism

Kelly Oliver is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University. Her publications include The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory (2004) and Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex and Maternity in Film Noir, co-authored with Benigno Trigo (2002).Lisa Walsh teaches French at Madawaska High School in Maine. She previously taught French at Southwestern University and The University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Subjects of Love and Desire: Readings in Maternity and Ethicity (forthcoming).

...offer[s] interested readers a wide spectrum of views and arguments that are likely to challenge them to review their own position regarding sexual difference, masculinity and feminism's future.

• 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, an Historical Difference ; 8. Genealogy of Masculinity ; 9. The Excess Visibility of an Invisible Sex or the Privileges of the Shapeless ; 10. The Prescribed Sex ; 11. Is Love a Place of Sexuated Knowledge ; 12. It is Necessary to Look for the Universal in the Difference Between the Sexes