There Are Two Sexes: Essays in Feminology

Author:   Antoinette Fouque ,  Sylvina Boissonnas ,  Catherine Porter
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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Pages:   352
Publication Date:   27 September 2016
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Author:   Antoinette Fouque ,  Sylvina Boissonnas ,  Catherine Porter
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780231169875


ISBN 10:   0231169876
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   27 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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Foreword, by Jean-Joseph Goux Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Note on the Translation 1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 2. Women in Movements: Yesterday 3. There Are Two Sexes 4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 5. The Plague of Misogyny 6. And If We Were to Speak of Women's Powerlessness? 7. It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear : Aung San Suu Kyi 8. My Freud, My Father 9. From Liberation to Democratization 10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 12. Recognitions 13. Wartime Rapes 14. Religion, Women, Democracy 15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 18. Democracy and Its Discontents 19. Tomorrow, Parity 20. Women and Europe 21. If This Is a Woman 22. They're Burning a Woman 23. What Is a Woman? 24. Gestation for Another: Paradigm of the Gift 25. Gravida Notes Biographical Notes Index

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This is a strong and powerful collection that repays reading and rereading by anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women. -- Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Work of ric Jourdan Antoinette Fouque played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent history of the women's liberation movement in France. An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, she took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription and recognition of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, and provocative. This book is a precious testimony to her thought and action. It will help the English-speaking world interested in feminism complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called 'French Feminism' some decades ago. -- Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University The feminology Fouque advocates here goes beyond feminism, since it triggers drastic shifts in our all-too-familiar worldview. Modernity is her tempo. Movement is her motto. Gestation is her guiding thread for a new epistemology, one of a world in which misogyny is eliminated. Procreation is her paradigm for a new human contract. The quest for liberty is her calling. The will to stay ahead of the game is her way of changing the rules. Sparkling with wit, this story of an everlasting commitment deserves a place in the international hall of fame. -- Laurence Zordan, philosopher and writer There Are Two Sexes departs from the same principle as Simone de Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex, that the feminine is devalued within traditional human cultures. Yet Fouque does not conclude, as feminists do, that it is necessary to align the secondary sex with the primary one. Instead, she accords women their own genius, a genius she calls matricial, a creative faculty that first appears in procreation, the power of life. In the process, the struggle of women for recognition is altered and exalted. -- Fran ois Gu ry, faculty of philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon


This is a strong and powerful collection that repays reading and rereading by anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women. -- Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Work of Eric Jourdan Antoinette Fouque played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent history of the women's liberation movement in France. An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, she took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription and recognition of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, and provocative. This book is a precious testimony to her thought and action. It will help the English-speaking world interested in feminism complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called 'French Feminism' some decades ago. -- Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University The feminology Fouque advocates here goes beyond feminism, since it triggers drastic shifts in our all-too-familiar worldview. Modernity is her tempo. Movement is her motto. Gestation is her guiding thread for a new epistemology, one of a world in which misogyny is eliminated. Procreation is her paradigm for a new human contract. The quest for liberty is her calling. The will to stay ahead of the game is her way of changing the rules. Sparkling with wit, this story of an everlasting commitment deserves a place in the international hall of fame. -- Laurence Zordan, philosopher and writer There Are Two Sexes departs from the same principle as Simone de Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex, that the feminine is devalued within traditional human cultures. Yet Fouque does not conclude, as feminists do, that it is necessary to align the secondary sex with the primary one. Instead, she accords women their own genius, a genius she calls matricial, a creative faculty that first appears in procreation, the power of life. In the process, the struggle of women for recognition is altered and exalted. -- Francois Guery, faculty of philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon A fitting testimony to the dedication and energy of a remarkable woman. -- Catherine Rodgers Modern Language Review


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Antoinette Fouque (1936-2014) was a psychoanalyst and director of research at the Universite de Paris VIII. She authored a number of books, including Gravidanza, Qui etes-vous, Antoinette Fouque? and Genesique. Sylvina Boissonnas is an activist in the Women's Liberation Movement and an architect. She has been involved in the Psychoanalysis and Politics research group since 1970.

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