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The book would also explore the concept of androgyny, along with its links to the anti-essentialism of the French school. [ 7 ] Sexual/Textual Politics was followed by further explorations of contemporary French feminists such as Julia Kristeva , before Moi turned to her ground-breaking 1994 study of Simone de Beauvoir . [ 8 ]
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history.
Djinn is a novel by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet. It was written as a French textbook with California State University, Dominguez Hills professor Yvone Lenard using a process of grammatical progression. [1] Each chapter covers a specific element of French grammar which becomes increasingly difficult over the course of the novel.
The War Against Women, Marilyn French (1992) "Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism", edited by Maxine Hanks (1992) Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them: From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich, Dale Spender (1992) Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estes (1992)
[4] Additionally, feminist criticism has been closely associated with the birth and growth of queer studies. Modern feminist literary theory seeks to understand both the literary portrayals and representation of both women and people in the queer community, expanding the role of a variety of identities and analysis within feminist literary ...
“The masculine dominates the feminine in the French language; if all the women in the world were accompanied by a dog, they would be constrained, these women and dogs, to be addressed in the masculine form, since women and dogs are obedient.” [11] Asked whether her writing is feminine, she replies:
Furthermore, some see evidence of the intentional preference of the masculine over the feminine. It has been argued that 17th-century grammaticians who wanted to assert male dominance worked to suppress the feminine forms of certain professions, leading to the modern-day rule that prefers the masculine over the feminine in the French language. [4]
Chapter 2: Friedan states that the editorial decisions concerning women's magazines at the time were being made mostly by men, who insisted on stories and articles that showed women as either happy housewives or unhappy careerists, thus creating the "feminine mystique"—the idea that women were naturally fulfilled by devoting their lives to ...