French feminism theory
French feminism is an American invention that was created by distorting and misrepresenting what was happening in France from the mid-1970s onward. It bears no relation to actual French feminist thought, but instead lumps together anti-feminist, pre-feminist, and sometimes feminist writers, while building a body of work that is unrelated to them, and seeks to reclaim psychoanalytical essentialism by passing it off as "French", in a manner that displays blatant imperialism towards the women's liberation movement in France, and relies on the audience's lack of knowledge of said movement.
Some of the French writers cited by the American inventors of "French Feminism" include:
References
- Christine Delphy, "L'invention du «French Feminism»: une démarche essentielle" (1996).