Catherine Denvenue, Ingrid Caven, Catherine Millet et al., “Nous défendons une liberté d’importuner, indispensable à la liberté sexuelle,” Le Monde, September 9, 2018 →.
See, for example, Hourya Bentouhami, Isabelle Cambourakis, Aurélie Fillod-Chabaud, Amandine Gay, Mélanie Gourarier, Sarah Mazouz, and Émilie Notéris, “Les féministes peuvent-elles parler?” Médiapart, January 11, 2018.
Secrétaire d’Etat à la condition féminine (1974–76).
See Stephanie Jeanjean, “Disobedient video in France in the 1970s: Video production by women’s collectives,” Afterall 27 (Summer 2011).
In Le Monde, January 11, 2018, interviewed by Faustine Vincent.
In the words of Joan W. Scott, The Fantasy of Feminist History (Duke University Press, 2011), chap. 5, “French Seduction Theory,” 117–40.
Mona Ozouf, Les mots des femmes: Essai sur la singularité française (Fayard, 1995), 388–89.
Irène Théry, “Un féminisme à la française,” Le Monde, May 28, 2011.
On the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair, see Eric Fassin, “Au delà du consentement: pour une théorie féministe de la séduction,” Raisons Politiques 2, no. 46 (2012): 47–66.
According to Psych et Po (Psychoanalysis and Politics, the group of women gathered around psychoanalyst Antoinette Fouque), Beauvoir’s “egalitarianism” fought against the open field of difference, which stemmed from the model of sexual difference.
See Christine Delphy, “The invention of French Feminism: An Essential Move,” Yale French Studies 97 (2000): 166–97.
Joan Scott, Sex and Secularism (Princeton University Press 2017), 18.
Paul B. Preciado, “Lettre d’un homme trans à l’ancien régime sexuel,” Libération, January 15, 2018.
See Geneviève Fraisse’s interview in Bibliobs, January 14, 2018.
“Que vivent les résistances des femmes pour une transformation radicale de la société!” Mediapart, January 16, 2018. →. The text was signed by an array of queer and feminist groups, including afro-feminist collective Mwasi, Groupe de Réflexion Queer & Trans Révolutionnaire, Les Voix Décoloniales, and Femmes en Lutte 93.
Joan Riviere, “Womanliness as a Masquerade,” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 9 (1929): 303–13.
Linda Nochlin, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” ARTnews, January 1971.
This past winter Cinémathèque Française scheduled retrospectives of the films of Roman Polanski and Jean-Claude Brisseau, provoking widespread criticism, as both filmmakers have been sued (and condemned) for sexual assault and rape. Feminist protests were staged in front of the institution, prompting its director, Frédéric Bonnaud, to cancel Brisseau’s retrospective. However, Bonnaud has relentlessly defended the legitimacy of his choice and strongly condemned the protesters, accusing them of censorship.
Nicolas Truong, “Michèle Perrot: ‘L’absence de solidarité des femmes signataires de cette tribune me sidère,’” Le Monde, January 11, 2018.