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The three articles composing this debate are among a half dozen that discussed historian Mona Ozouf’s book Les mots des femmes and appeared in Le Débat of November/December 1995. In her book Ozouf posits that, historically, women’s liberation in France had enjoyed a unique cultural specificity that had been more beneficial to women than what she characterized as the aggressive “‘ différencialisme à l’américaine.” This thesis divided feminists and historians alike. Included in this issue of Le Débat were essays by Bronislaw Baczko, Elisabeth Badinter, Lynn Hunt, Michèle Perrot, and Joan Wallach Scott, as well as a response by Mona Ozouf.
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Hubertine Auclert, “Les hypocrites,” La Citoyenne, March 27, 1881.
Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
Claire Duchen, “Féminisme français et feminismes anglo-américains: spécificités et débats actuels,” La place des femmes (Paris: La Découverte, 1995).
On feminist sociabilities, see, for example, Christine Bard, Les filles de Marianne, Histoire des féminismes 1914–1940 (Paris: Fayard, 1995).
Françoise Gaspard used this expression in her article, “Parity: Why Not?” in Differences 9.2 (1997).
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Célestin, R., DalMolin, E., de Courtivron, I. (2003). Debate. In: Célestin, R., DalMolin, E., de Courtivron, I. (eds) Beyond French Feminisms. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09514-5_21
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