Contents:
pt. 1. The Women's liberation movement in France: Introduction to Women Are Becoming Headstrong / Simone de Beauvoir
A French Feminism / Françoise Picq
Lesbian Groups in the Parisian Feminist Movement / Claude Lesselier
Positions and Problems, 1970/1982
Lesbianism and Feminism:The Stakes of Freedom / Marie-Jo Bonnet
When Speaking and Writing Was Every Woman's Business ... / Beatrice Slama.
pt. 2. Women and Creativity: Stifled Creation / Suzanne More and Jeanne Soquet
From the Scene of the Subconscious to the Stage of History: A Writer's Path / Hélène Cixous
Prologue to the French Edition of Djuna Barnes's La Passion / Monique Wittig
Balzac's Little Sister / Christine Planté
From Minority Creation to Universal Creation / Marcelle Marini.
pt. 3. Writing History/Rewriting History: The Rights of Woman / Olympe de Gouges
Democracy without Women: A Basic History of a French Specificity / Michelle Perrot
The Misleading Universality of the 1789 Revolution / Elizabeth Sledziewski
On the Nature of Women and Its Compatibility with the Exercise of Power in Seventeenth Century France / Danielle Haase-Dubosc
On Political History and Power: From Positivism to Michel Foucault / Michelle Riot-Sarcey.
pt. 4. Integration/Exclusion: Race/Class/Gender: Twin Evils of the Veil / Ghaiss Jasser
An Interview with Souad Benani / Gita Srinivasan
Foreign Women in France / Malika Bentaib
Women and Poverty / Françoise Dasques
Sexism and Racism: Referent and Dominant / Marie-Josèphe Dhavernas.
pt. 5. Legal Bodies/Women's Bodies: The League of Women's Rights / Anne Zelinski
Can There Be a Gendered Social Contract? / Régine Dhoquois
New Reproductive Techniques: From Difference to Inequality / Hélène Rouch
The European Conference on Trafficking in Women: Towards the Legal Recognition of Procuring / Marie-Victoire Louis.
pt. 6. Occupying/Capturing Political Space: The MLF's Contribution to the Political Scene: An Unacknowledged Debt / Mariette Sineau
From Non-Segregation to Parity / Françoise Gaspard
A Political Journey / Huguette Bouchardeau
Parity or Non-Segregation (Mixité)? / Helena Hirata [and others].
pt. 7. Feminists Defetishize Theory: From Existentialism to The Second Sex / Michèle le Doeuff
The End of a Misogynist Parade: Lacanian Psychoanalysis / Catherine Baliteau
The Philosopher in Drag or the Feminine without Women / Françoise Collin
Feminism, Modernity, Postmodernism: For a Dialogue across the Ocean / Eleni Varikas.
pt. 8. Feminist Mappings: Feminine Identity: Biology or Social Conditioning? / Luce Irigaray
Thinking Gender: What Are the Problems? / Christine Delphy
When Yielding Does Not Mean Consenting / Nicole-Claude Mathieu
Women and Social Theory / Colette Guillaumin