Cultural and historical accounts of the public intellectual and French feminism have been remiss in their failure to recognise an important group of major women intellectuals in France. In particular,
Drawn from papers given at the biennial "Women in French" conference in Leeds in May of 2011, these fifteen essays focus on the engagement of women in contemporary debates. They cover the treatment of
This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With
