differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from June 1997

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from June 1997

Technology and sexual difference: apocalyptic scenarios at two "fins de siecle."
June 22, 1997... A riddle might ask what technology has to do with activities such as speech, consciousness of the inevitability of death, and the ability to lie: all have been mobilized at one time or another in the attempt to specify what constitutes the...

Retailing the female intellectual.
June 22, 1997... "Our press arrived on Tuesday," Virginia Woolf writes her sister Vanessa Bell in April 1917. "We unpacked it with enormous excitement, finally with Nelly's help, carried it into the drawing room, set it on its stand" (Letters 2: 150). Consider,...

"La querelle des femmes" in the late twentieth century. (a literary and philosophical debate about the intellectual and amorous capabilities of women among men)
June 22, 1997... Although this essay is about feminist challenges to certain ideas of universal citizenship (and in that way constitutes an epilogue to my book that was published last year), it was provoked by anger: the intense anger being expressed by some...

Parity: why not? (parity in the French society)
June 22, 1997... An article by Professor Louis Favoreu, published in the latest annual report of the Conseil d'Etat,(1) begins by echoing a quip made famous by one of Favoreu's colleagues, who had remarked: "Secularism is a fighting word." Favoreu's version -...

Parity and universalism (1).
June 22, 1997... I have prepared a few historical remarks - to treat them thoroughly would require an enormous amount of time - regarding the figures of French universalism in the nineteenth century. It seems to me that one way of reflecting on the problems of...