Have we entered a historical moment of "post-feminism?" This volume presents a timely and convincing "no." These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual.
Author(s): Kelly Oliver, Lisa Walsh
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 266
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: The Swell of the Third Wave......Page 14
1. Difference/Indifference between the Sexes......Page 26
2. A Deceptive Universalism......Page 44
3. Versions of Difference......Page 53
4. Masculine/Feminine: The Thought of the Difference......Page 69
5. A Little Learning: Women and (Intellectual) Work......Page 87
6. The Meaning of Equality......Page 103
7. The Difference between the Sexes, a Historical Difference......Page 122
8. Genealogy of Masculinity......Page 141
9. The Excess Visibility of an Invisible Sex or the Privileges of the Formless......Page 172
10. The Prescribed Sex......Page 190
11. Is Love a Place of Sexuated Knowledge?......Page 214
12. Is it Necessary to Look for the Universal in the Difference between the Sexes?......Page 228
Further Reading......Page 256
D......Page 262
H......Page 263
M......Page 264
S......Page 265
W......Page 266
