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Women intellectuals in post-68 France: petitions and polemics

Long, Imogen

Authors

Imogen Long



Abstract

Cultural and historical accounts of the public intellectual and French feminism have been remiss in their failure to recognise an important group of major women intellectuals in France. In particular, studies of French feminism and public intellectuals have overlooked the contribution of notable figures such as Françoise Parturier, Gisèle Halimi and Elisabeth Badinter amongst many others which has necessarily had a detrimental effect on discourses about the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France. By studying the work of these neglected intellectuals alongside those of more recognised women thinkers such as Assia Djebar, Marguerite Duras and Annie Ernaux, this book aims to provide a much broader picture of the activities, both political and literary, of female key public in the aftermath of May 1968. By exploring the relationship between their interventions in the public sphere and their creative work it throws new light on the reasons for their omission in standard theoretical and empirical work on the French intellectual. In so doing, this book offers a cultural and theoretical re-evaluation of the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France, as such it is important reading to students and scholars of French Feminism and French public intellectuals more generally.

Citation

Long, I. Women intellectuals in post-68 France: petitions and polemics. The University of Hull

Book Type Authored Book
Deposit Date Dec 19, 2014
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Book Title Women intellectuals in post-68 France: petitions and polemics
ISBN 978-0-23036-306-9
Keywords REF 2014 submission
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/369996
Contract Date Dec 19, 2014