Selective Import: French Feminist Theory and Anglophone Critical Discourses

Tymon Adamczewski

Résumé

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.

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Adamczewski, T. Selective Import: French Feminist Theory and Anglophone Critical Discourses. Romanica Silesiana, 8(1). Consulté à l’adresse https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/5861

Vol. 8 No 1 (2013)
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ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Éditeur
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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