Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and spearheaded its celebrated Psychanalyse et Politique, a research group that informed the cultural and intellectual heart of French feminism. Rather than reject Freud’s discoveries on the pretext of their phallocentrism, Fouque sought to enrich his thought by more clearly defining the difference between the sexes and affirming the existence of a female libido. By recognizing women’s contribution to humanity, Fouque hoped ‘uterus envy, ‘ which she saw as the mainspring of misogyny, could finally give way to gratitude and by associating procreation with women’s liberation she advanced the goal of a parity-based society in which men and women could write a new human contract.
The essays, lectures, and dialogues in this volume finally allow English-speaking readers to access the breadth of Fouque’s creativity and activism. Touching on issues in history and biography, politics and psychoanalysis, Fouque recounts her experiences running the first women’s publishing house in Europe; supporting women under threat, such as Aung San Suu Kyi, Taslima Nasrin, and Nawal El Saadaoui; and serving as deputy in the European Parliament. Her theoretical explorations discuss the ongoing development of feminology, a field she initiated, and, while she celebrates the progress women have made over the past four decades, she also warns against the trends of counterliberation: the feminization of poverty, the persistence of sexual violence, and the rise of religious fundamentalism.
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword, by Jean-Joseph Goux
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Note on the Translation
1. Our Movement Is Irreversible
2. Women in Movements: Yesterday
3. There Are Two Sexes
4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women?
5. The Plague of Misogyny
6. And If We Were to Speak of Women’s Powerlessness?
7. ‘It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear’: Aung San Suu Kyi
8. My Freud, My Father
9. From Liberation to Democratization
10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics
11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert
12. Recognitions
13. Wartime Rapes
14. Religion, Women, Democracy
15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin
16. Homage to Serge Leclaire
17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis?
18. Democracy and Its Discontents
19. Tomorrow, Parity
20. Women and Europe
21. If This Is a Woman
22. They’re Burning a Woman
23. What Is a Woman?
24. Gestation for Another: Paradigm of the Gift
25. Gravida
Notes
Biographical Notes
Index
Circa l’autore
Antoinette Fouque (1936–2014) was a psychoanalyst and director of research at the Université de Paris VIII. She authored a number of books, including Gravidanza, Qui êtes-vous, Antoinette Fouque? and Génésique.Sylvina Boissonnas is an activist in the Women’s Liberation Movement and an architect. She has been involved in the Psychoanalysis and Politics research group since 1970.
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