This volume is the first sustained attempt to revalue French feminism and answer the question: What has been gained and what has been lost as a result of this intercultural encounter?
Looks at the work of a range of critics, including Elaine Showalter, Kate Millett, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the French feminists.
French Feminist Theory (II): Michèle Le Dœuff, Monique Wittig, Catherine Clément : a Bibliography
French Feminist Theory: A Bibliography. Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous. III
... from Bronté to Lessing (Princeton University Press, 1977); Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (Yale University Press, 1979); Mary Jacobus (ed.) ...
French Feminist Theory: Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous : a Bibliography
Gallop takes the novel approach of structuring her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship.
"This important anthology provides us with translations of texts from women's liberation movement in France...an excellent starting place."(Signs)
These are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists: Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Chawaf, Helene Cixous, Catherine Clement, Christine Delphy, Marguerite Duras, Colette Guillaumin, Madeleine Gagnon, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, ...
Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, 1980. Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits (1966). Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publishers, 1977. Langland, Elizabeth, and Grove, Walter, eds. A Feminist Perspective in the Academy.