Selective Import: French Feminist Theory and Anglophone Critical Discourses

• Authors: Tymon Adamczewski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article aims to sketch the reception and the representations of French feminist discourses in the Anglo-American critical theory starting from the early 1970s. It situates French Feminism within the field of French Theory, a notion created in the Anglophone critical discourses, and analyses the meanings ascribed to both terms. Through a historicised discussion of the appropriation of the French theories - for a long time limited to the propositions of Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray - the text also attempts to present the popular critical moves (selectiveness and standardisation) in this process. What follows constitutes a brief analysis of the reasons and responses to the propagation of French feminism as a reductive construct. The article concludes registering a change in more contemporary approaches which attempt to move beyond the initial label. Key words: French Theory, French feminism, theoretical discourse, poststructuralism.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Romanica Silesiana
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Tymon Adamczewski