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The work examines women’s liberation and gender questions through critiques of existing feminist frameworks, engages psychoanalysis and politics, and addresses themes such as misogyny, women’s powerlessness, reproductive life, and democratic parity. It is organized into 25 numbered chapters with notes, biographical notes, and an index.","There Are Two Sexes  \nF O R EW O R D BY J EA N-J O S E P H G O UX  \nantoinette fouque  \nT RA N S LAT E D BY DAV I D MA C EY A N D CAT H E R I N E P O RT E R  \nE D I T E D BY SY LV I NA B O I S S O N NA S  \ncol u mbia un iv ersi t y p r ess New York  \ncolumbia university press  \npublishers since 18 93  \nnew york chichester , west sussex  \n[cup.columbia.edu](cup.columbia.edu)  \nIl y a deux sexes, copyright © 1995, expanded edition copyright © 2004, Gallimard Copyright © Editions Des femmes:  \nchapter 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)  \nforeword by Jean-Joseph Goux (2013)  \nCopyright © 2015 Columbia University Press  \nAll rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nFouque, Antoinette.  \n[Il y a deux sexes. English]  \nThere are two sexes: essays in feminology / Antoinette Fouque; foreword by Jean-Joseph Goux; translated by David Macey and Catherine Porter; edited by  \nSylvina Boissonnas.  \npages cm  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-231-16986-8 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-53838-1 (e-book)  \n1. Women. 2. Feminism. 3. Sex role. I. Title.  \nHQ1208.F6813 2015  \n305.4—dc23  \n2014026340  \nColumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper.  \nThis book is printed on paper with recycled content.  \nPrinted in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nbook & cover design: chang jae lee  \nReferences 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.  \nFor Vincente and Ezekiel  \nContents  \nForeword Jean Joseph Goux ix Preface to the First Edition xv Preface to the Second Edition xvii Acknowledgments xxxiii Note on the Translation xxxv  \n1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 1  \n2. Women in Movements—Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow 10  \n3. There Are Two Sexes 34  \n4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 55  \n5. The Plague of Misogyny 60  \n6. And If We Were to Speak of Women’s Powerlessness? 68  \nviii contents  \n7.“It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear”: Aung San Suu Kyi 75  \n8. My Freud, My Father 80  \n9. From Liberation to Democratization 83  \n10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 89  \n11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 94  \n12. Recognitions 113  \n13. Wartime Rapes 122  \n14. Religion, Women, Democracy 126  \n15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 133  \n16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 138  \n17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 143  \n18. Democracy and Its Discontents 149  \n19. Tomorrow, Parity 152  \n20. Women and Europe 179  \n21. If This Is a Woman 183  \n22. They’re Burning a Woman 192  \n23. What Is a Woman? 195  \n24. Gestation for Another, Paradigm of the Gift 215  \n25. Gravida 233  \nNotes 261  \nBiographical Notes 295  \nIndex 299  \nForeword  \nAntoinette 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 benefited from Fouque’s original, coherent, and persistent thinking. For several decades now, American feminists, or, to take a wider view, women’s studies programs, have analyzed, debated, supported, or contested, after 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 Anglophone context. There is an anomaly here that the publication of this book by Columbia University Press will, happily, begin to rectify.  \nFrom 1968 on, with the creation of the group known as Psyc","cbCaic0iEaMmVyZ9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic0iEaMmVyZ9","pdf",1512878,1,349,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Foreword and Prefaces\n## Chapter 1-5\n## Chapter 6-10\n## Chapter 11-15\n## Chapter 16-20\n## Chapter 21-25\n## Notes, Biographical Notes, Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the core theme of There Are Two Sexes?\",\"answer\":\"The book centers on women’s liberation and the meaning of gender, exploring how relations between the sexes shape power, roles, and social structures.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the foreword situate Fouque within French feminism?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Fouque as a major inspirational force behind distinctive French women’s liberation movements and highlights her coherent, persistent theoretical contributions.\"},{\"question\":\"Which kinds of topics do the chapters address?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter list indicates sustained discussion of misogyny, women’s powerlessness, psychoanalysis, political movements, democracy and parity, and reproductive life, culminating in essays like “What Is a Woman?” and “Gestation for Another, Paradigm of the Gift.”\"}]","There Are Two Sexes - 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