Feminism Equality and or Difference

This volume opens with a thorough survey, celebratory but clear-eyed, of the feminist movement & its various branches, especially as it emerges from the controversies that have preoccupied it in the 1990s. It clarifies the conflict between radical/gender feminists, who deny any significant difference between men & women, & liberal/equity feminists, who see women as significantly different but of course (at least) equal. This conflict is reflected in the opposing views of female thinking as (a) identical with male thinking & (b) disorderly compared with male order; but both views are rejected by the Editor of this volume, who views order as more female than male, even if it has been hijacked/exploited by the patriarchy. Essays illustrating feminist situations, predicaments & conflicts are followed by studies of literary works by women (American, French, Canadian) or about women (African, French, Burgundian), together with an essay on feminism by a distinguished contemporary French novelist, Lucette Desvignes, winner of the Prix Roland Dorgeles (1982), the Prix Alexis Piron (1984), and the Prix Bourgogne (1986). A review essay devoted to Camille Paglia's SEXUAL PERSONAE is followed by reviews of books dealing with women in soap operas & in the works of Emile Zola.Brady, Patrick is the author of 'Feminism Equality and or Difference' with ISBN 9781886935099 and ISBN 1886935092.