There Are Two Sexes : Essays in Feminology PDF
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2 There Are SEXES ESSAYS IN FEMINOLOGY FOREWORD BY JEAN-JOSEPH GOUX antoinette fouque TRANSLATED BY DAVID MACEY AND CATHERINE PORTER There Are Two Sexes FOREWORD BY JEAN-JOSEPH GOUX antoinette fouque TRANSLATED BY DAVID MACEY AND CATHERINE PORTER EDITED BY SYLVINA BOISSONNAS 2 There Are SEXES ESSAYS IN FEMINOLOGY columbia university press New York columbia university press p ublishers since 1893 new york chichester, west sussex cup.columbia.edu Il y a deux sexes, copyright © 1995, expanded edition copyright © 2004, Gallimard Copyright © Editions Des femmes: chapter 23, “Gravida,” in Gravidanza (2007) chapter 24, “What Is a Woman,” in Génération MLF (2008) chapter 25, “Gestation for Another, Paradigm of the Gift ,” in Génésique (2012) foreword by Jean-Joseph Goux (2013) Copyright © 2015 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fouque, Antoinette. [Il y a deux sexes. English] There are two sexes: essays in feminology / Antoinette Fouque; foreword by Jean-Joseph Goux; translated by David Macey and Catherine Porter; edited by Sylvina Boissonnas. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-16986-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-53838-1 (e-book) 1. Women. 2. Feminism. 3. Sex role. I. Title. HQ1208.F6813 2015 305.4—dc23 2014026340 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 book & cover design: chang jae lee References to websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. For Vincente and Ezekiel Contents Foreword Jean Joseph Goux ix Preface to the First Edition xv Preface to the Second Edition xvii Acknowledgments xxxiii Note on the Translation xxxv 1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 1 2. Women in Movements—Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow 10 3. There Are Two Sexes 34 4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 55 5. The Plague of Misogyny 60 6. And If We Were to Speak of Women’s Powerlessness? 68 viii contents 7. “It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear”: Aung San Suu Kyi 75 8. My Freud, My Father 80 9. From Liberation to Democratization 83 10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 89 11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 94 12. Recognitions 113 13. Wartime Rapes 122 14. Religion, Women, Democracy 126 15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 133 16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 138 17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 143 18. Democracy and Its Discontents 149 19. Tomorrow, Parity 152 20. Women and Europe 179 21. If This Is a Woman 183 22. They’re Burning a Woman 192 23. What Is a Woman? 195 24. Gestation for Another, Paradigm of the Gift 215 25. Gravida 233 Notes 261 Biographical Notes 295 Index 299 Foreword Antoinette Fouque’s work should have been introduced to English-language readers much earlier. It is highly regrettable that the vigorous American debate over French feminism, or, more broadly, over the question of gender, has not benefi ted from Fouque’s original, coherent, and persistent thinking. For sev- eral decades now, American feminists, or, to take a wider view, women’s stud- ies programs, have analyzed, debated, supported, or contested, aft er Simone de Beauvoir’s contributions, those of Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, and Monique Wittig. Although it is fair to say that Fouque, through her actions, speeches, and writings, has been the chief inspirational force behind the most original and most combative dimensions of the French women’s liberation movement, her name appears very rarely in the Anglo- phone context. There is an anomaly here that the publication of this book by Columbia University Press will, happily, begin to rectify. From 1968 on, with the creation of the group known as Psychanalyse et Politique (Psychoanalysis and Politics) and the beginning of the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (Women’s Liberation Movement, or MLF), Antoi- nette Fouque’s actions and theoretical positions have given a decisive impetus
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