French feminism

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French feminism is a strand of feminist theory and activism originating in France, known for its philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gender, language, and sexual difference.

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instanceOf feminist movement
feminist theory
contrastedWith Anglo-American feminism
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes patriarchal language
phallocentrism
universalist conceptions of the subject
developedInPeriod 1970s
20th century
emphasizes difference between the sexes
the body in theory
the role of language in constructing gender
field cultural theory
feminist philosophy
literary theory
psychoanalytic theory
hasKeyConcept embodiment
female subjectivity
language and desire
maternal function
phallogocentrism
sexual difference
symbolic order
the Other
écriture féminine
hasKeyText One Is Not Born a Woman
Powers of Horror
Speculum of the Other Woman
The Laugh of the Medusa
The Newly Born Woman
The Second Sex
This Sex Which Is Not One
hasNotableTheorist Antoinette Fouque
Christine Delphy
Colette Guillaumin
Françoise d’Eaubonne
Hélène Cixous
Julia Kristeva
Luce Irigaray
Michèle Le Doeuff
Monique Wittig
Sarah Kofman
Simone de Beauvoir
influencedBy Friedrich Nietzsche
Jacques Lacan
Martin Heidegger
Sigmund Freud
existentialism
poststructuralism
psychoanalysis
structuralism
mainFocus gender
language
sexual difference
subjectivity
relatedMovement continental feminism
difference feminism
poststructuralist feminism
radical feminism
second-wave feminism
usesApproach philosophical approach
psychoanalytic approach

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