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... of Feminist Cultural Studies 1 . 2 ( 1989 ). Shaktini Namascar . “ Displacing the Phallic Subject: Wittig's Lesbian Writing .” The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy . Ed. Allen Jeffner and Young Iris Marion . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1989 . 195 - 210...

...Éric Fassin In transatlantic sex wars, gender is supposedly alien to French culture, as if it were essentially American. This nationalist cliché can be turned upside down if one takes language seriously. Gender is not only, but it is also, a grammatical term, especially in French. It is omnipresent...

...JOAN WALLACH SCOTT Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2004 joan wallach scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author, most recently,of Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists...

... . Lionnet Françoise . “ Identity, Sexuality, and Criminality: ‘Universal Rights' and the Debate Around the Practice of Female Excision in France .” Contemporary French Civilization 16 . 2 ( 1992 ): 294 – 307 . Miller Nancy K. Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other...

..., “hospitality” appears as a way to question universalizing feminist proposals and their capacity to disrupt domestic and national orders. These “promises” are first addressed in a general way before being more precisely considered through the lens of the French “republican” model of politics and science...

...Figure 5 French Colonial Indochina, circa 1930 Source: Wikipedia ...

...Alanna Thain This essay explores the affective intensity of movement in a recent choreography by noted French Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. In bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS , dancers perform with all manners of prosthetics and bodily extensions--crutches, ski poles, coat racks, pointe...

... appropriation of the octopus following the novel’s publication. The French word for octopus came to denote a sexually assertive and economically ambitious woman who traded upon her erotic charms. The emergence of this social type derived its aesthetic power from channeling contemporary anxieties tied to gender...

...Thangam Ravindranathan This essay considers through a string of three fables—a classic wolf trap in La Fontaine, Poe’s story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and contemporary French novelist Eric Chevillard’s Sans l’orang-outan— the animal as the paradoxical, derealized figure of a passing. Drawing...

... begins by detailing Bersani’s early engagement, in Balzac to Beckett: Center and Circumference in French Fiction (1970), with Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett, as well as Gilles Deleuze’s and Maurice Blanchot’s commentaries on the two writers. Having borrowed Deleuze’s description of Proust...

... of the schizophrenic imaginary into conversation with the work of French psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto and the Martinican psychiatrist and militant philosopher Frantz Fanon, this essay challenges the hierarchical organization of the real, symbolic, and imaginary registers in dominant Lacanian critique. Simultaneously...

...Eugenie Brinkema What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and the most visceral of the negative affects, disgust? The history of “good taste”—from the philosophical subdiscipline of aesthetics to French haute cuisine—banishes and simultaneously cultivates all things that taste bad...

... to Russian apocalyptic thinking in the reception of Hegelianism in France. This connection, however, has been marked by a striking contrast in the vicissitudes of Hegel's term in Russia and in France. Its first aspect is the invisibility of the issue of translation in the Russian case and the French...

...Gila Ashtor Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, and specifically the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924–2012), Judith Butler challenges the popular Nietzschean account of how responsibility originates by offering a counterhistory of subject formation. I take up the book’s reformulation...

... . Fassin E. “ Dans des genres differents: Le féminisme au miroir transatlantique .” L'esprit 196 ( 1993 ): 99 – 112 . Fassin E. “ The Purloined Gender: American Feminism in the French Mirror .” Institute of French Studies, New York University . 13 Mar. 1997 . Gaspard...

... ‘civilisation occidentale’ dans les universités américaines .” Vingtième siècle 43 ( 1994 ): 4 – 15 . Lee Grace Haewon . Personal Statement. Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Application for Admission Form for the M.A. in French Cultural Studies, Autumn 1994...