Feminist Theory Sex in Question: French materialist feminism
Feminist Theory Sex in Question: French materialist feminism
Aug 31 2025, 1:21 PM
Quote: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.
Available to read in full here: https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sex-in-question_-french-materialist-femi-diana-leonard.pdf
An overview of the essays collected in the book:
Quote:
- Re/constructing French Feminism by Lisa Adkins and Diana Leonard
- The Category of Sex by Monique Witting
- The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature by Collete Guillaumin
- Our Costs and Their Benefits by Monique Plaza
- Natural Fertility and Forced Reproduction by Paola Tabet
- Sexualised/Sexed/or Sex- Class Indentity? by Nicole-Claude Mathieu
- Rethinking Sex and Gender by Christine Delphy.
Quote: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.
Available to read in full here: https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sex-in-question_-french-materialist-femi-diana-leonard.pdf
An overview of the essays collected in the book:
Quote:
- Re/constructing French Feminism by Lisa Adkins and Diana Leonard
- The Category of Sex by Monique Witting
- The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature by Collete Guillaumin
- Our Costs and Their Benefits by Monique Plaza
- Natural Fertility and Forced Reproduction by Paola Tabet
- Sexualised/Sexed/or Sex- Class Indentity? by Nicole-Claude Mathieu
- Rethinking Sex and Gender by Christine Delphy.
