Rassemblant des essais et des articles écrits entre 1978 et 1993, ce livre précurseur analyse les rapports de domination en démontrant que leurs formes matérielles sont inextricablement liées à leurs formes idéelles – à la manière dont la pensée scientifique ou théorique, le "sens commun", l'idéologie les valident ou les justifient. Le servage, l'esclavage et ce que, la première, Colette Guillaumin a nommé sexage, reposent sur une appropriation rendue possible par l'établissement de catégo...

First Published in 2004. This text argues that there is nothing obvious or natural about our ideas of sex and race and looks at the evolution of these ideas. The author contends that the slow crystallization of ideas on human races over the last few centuries can be grasped through the study of signs and their systems. However, race and sex are in no way purely abstract or symbolic phenomena. They are the hard facts of society. To be a man or woman, black or white are matters of social rea...

French Feminism Reader is a collection of essays representing the authors and issues from French theory most influential in the American context. The book is designed for use in courses, and it includes illuminating introductions to the work of each author. These introductions include biographical information, influences and intellectual context, major themes in the author's work as a whole, and specific introductions to the selections in this volume. The contributors represent the two tre...