'La querelle des femmes' in the late twentieth century

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Volumn , Issue 226, 1997, Pages 3-19

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1. This paper was originally given as a talk at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 22 March 1997. I am grateful to Jeremy Popkin for the invitation to speak. I am also grateful to my friends in France, both paritaires and anti-paritaires, who supplied me with opinions, articles, and information.
2. Jacques Julliard, Le Nouvel Observateur, 2-8 January 1997, p. 24.
3. Mona Ozouf, Les Mots des femmes: Essai sur la singularité française, Paris 1995, pp. 387, 388.
4. Ozouf's main source on American feminism is the anti-feminist work by Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, London 1994.
5. Etienne Balibar, 'Ambiguous Universality', differences, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1995, p. 63.
6. See Eric Fassin 'Dans des genres différents: le féminisme au miroir transatlantique', L'Esprit, no. 196, November 1993, pp. 99-112; and Fassin, 'The Purloined Gender: American Feminism in the French Mirror', unpublished lecture at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, 13 March 1997.
7. See Eric Fassin 'Dans des genres différents: le féminisme au miroir transatlantique', L'Esprit, no. 196, November 1993, pp. 99-112; and Fassin, 'The Purloined Gender: American Feminism in the French Mirror', unpublished lecture at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, 13 March 1997.
8. L'Express, 6-12 June 1996, p. 31.
9. On Hubertine Auclert, see Joan W. Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man, Cambridge, Mass. 1996, ch. 4.
10. Simone Veil, 'Discours d'Athènes', Projets féministes, no. 2, 1993, pp. 185-9.
11. Françoise Gaspard, Claude Servan-Schreiber, Anne Le Gall, Au Pouvoir Citoyennes: Liberté. Egalité, Parité, Paris 1992.
12. 'Slogans, manifestation devant l'Assemblé Nationale à l'initiative du Réseau Femmes pour la parité, 2 octobre 1993', Projets féministes, nos. 4-5, February 1996, p. 256. The newsletter is now supplemented by a web site: http://www.parite-infos.org.
13. This brief history of parité is based on the account by Françoise Gaspard, 'De la parité: genèse d'un concept, naissance d'un mouvement', Nouvelles Questions Féministes, vol. 15, no. 4, 1994, pp. 29-44.
14. L'Express, 6-12 June 1996.
15. Article in the New York Times, 23 May 1997, p. A6.
16. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London 1983; Gerard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, trans. Geoffroy de Laforcade, Minneapolis 1996.
17. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London 1983; Gerard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, trans. Geoffroy de Laforcade, Minneapolis 1996.
18. On Deroin, see Scott, Only Paradoxes, ch. 3.
19. Françoise Collin, intervention at the 2 February 1995 session of a seminar at the Maison des Sciences Humaines in Paris. The transcripts, called 'Actualité de la Parité', are published in Projets Féministes, nos. 4-5, February 1996. Collin's comments are on p. 103.
20. See Naomi Schor, 'French Feminism is a Universalism', differences, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 15-47.
21. Gaspard et al., Au Pouvoir Citoyennes, pp. 164-6.
22. Schor, 'French Feminism', pp. 33-34, citing Irigaray, J'aime à toi: Esquisse d'une félicité dans l'histoire, Paris 1992, pp. 84-5.
23. Schor, 'French Feminism', pp. 33-34, citing Irigaray, J'aime à toi: Esquisse d'une félicité dans l'histoire, Paris 1992, pp. 84-5.
24. Eliane Viennot, 'Parité: les féministes entre défis politiques et révolution culturelle', Nouvelles questions féministes, vol. 15, no. 4, 1994, p. 55.
25. Claude Servan-Schreiber, 'La fausse-vraie maire de Vitrolles: une insulte pour toutes les femmes', Parité-infos, March 1997, p. 5.
26. For an articulation of the parity position, see the entire issue of Nouvelles questions féministes, vol. 15, no. 4, 1994; 'La parité: pour;' Projets féministes, nos. 4-5, February 1996; the entire run of Parité-infos; and E. Viennot, ed. La démocratie 'à la française' ou les femmes indésirables, Paris 1996.
27. For an articulation of the parity position, see the entire issue of Nouvelles questions féministes, vol. 15, no. 4, 1994; 'La parité: pour;' Projets féministes, nos. 4-5, February 1996; the entire run of Parité-infos; and E. Viennot, ed. La démocratie 'à la française' ou les femmes indésirables, Paris 1996.
28. For an articulation of the parity position, see the entire issue of Nouvelles questions féministes, vol. 15, no. 4, 1994; 'La parité: pour;' Projets féministes, nos. 4-5, February 1996; the entire run of Parité-infos; and E. Viennot, ed. La démocratie 'à la française' ou les femmes indésirables, Paris 1996.
29. The critique of parity is in Nouvelles questions féministes, vol. 16, no. 2, 1996, 'La Parité: Contre'. The reference to 'patriciennes' is in the article by Michèle Le Doeuff, 'Problèmes d'investiture (de la parité, etc.)', p. 14.
30. Ibid., pp. 38-9.
31. See Elena Hirata, Danielle Kergoat, Michèle Riot-Sarcey, and Eleni Varikas, 'La représentation politique en question: parité ou mixité?', Futur Antérieur, nos. 19-20, 1993, pp. 115-17.
32. Elisabeth Badinter, Le Monde, 12 June 1996, pp. 1, 15.
33. Ozouf, Les Mots, p. 353, See also Ozouf, 'Le compte des jours', Le Débat, no. 87, 1995, p. 142.
34. Ozouf, Les Mots, p. 353, See also Ozouf, 'Le compte des jours', Le Débat, no. 87, 1995, p. 142.
35. For a fuller discussion of this problem, see Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer.
36. Ozouf, Les Mots, p. 387.
37. Julliard, editorial in Le Nouvel Observateur, 2-8 January 1997.
38. I attended the lecture by Badinter in the spring of 1996 at Princeton University.
39. Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer, ch. 4.
40. Balibar, 'Ambiguous Universality', p. 74.