French feminist theories in Wenyi Lilun of the 1990s by Chen Ya-chen

“…According to my survey, this journal preferred French feminist theories in the decade immediately following the Tiananmen incident. …”
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French Feminists and Anglo-Irish Modernist: Cixous, Kristeva, Beckett and Joyce by Jennifer Birkett

“… This essay discusses the importance ascribed to the work of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce by two major French feminists: the philosopher and psychoanaJyst Julia Kristeva and the creative writer and philosopher Helene Cixous. …”
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The Illusions of Biography. Women in Classical Scholarship: A Review by Marco Formisano

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Modernist/Postmodernist dilemma in Hélène Cixous' work and in postcolonial critique by Pilar Villar Argáiz

“…Like Said, Bhabha, and Spivak, this French feminist critic is deeply influenced by postmodernism and poststructuralism. …”
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Feministisk teorireception inom litteraturvetenskapen by Claudia Lindén

“…Focus is on how the for feminist theory important but problematic dichotomy essentialism– constructivism came to play a decisive part in the change from Anglo– American theory to French feminist theory and then back to an interest in Anglo–American, though French-inspired, theory again. …”
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The Construction of the Masculine: Women’s Domination and Homophobia by Daniel Welzer-Lang

“…To accomplish the above, the author addresses a vast array of contemporary French feminist debates.…”
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Coalescence: an approach to Hélène Cixous' writing style by Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

“…Departing from a relatively unknown narrative experiment by Hélène Cixous, Angst, this article aims to explore the peculiar application that this French feminist writer and critic makes of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction within the field of sexual difference. …”
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’n Filosofiese besinning oor die vroulike en vroulikheid van die godheid by Louise du Toit

“…A philosophical discussion of the feminine and femininity of the divine This article considers the importance of the feminine of the divine (or ‘the goddess’) from the perspective of a philosophy of sexual difference, as the latter is proposed mainly by French feminist philosopher, Luce Irigaray. The article considers why we have lost the feminine of the divine, why she is making a comeback, and the strongest reasons – philosophically speaking – for retrieving some of those elements for the sake of the world and humanity today.…”
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Kristevan Femininity and Negative Theology in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, I and II by Tina Takapoui

“…Despite such views, Marlowe’s drama enjoys a specific aura of femininity which is pressed by contemporary French feminist theoreticians, namely Julia Kristeva who finds the term essentially irrelevant to genders, but a spatial and temporal concept. …”
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Beyond biological maternity: Katherine Mansfield’s autobiographical experience by Gerardo Rodríguez Salas

“…Considering the theories on motherhood of two great French feminist critics (Simone de Beaouvoir, who claims for the radical rejection of the maternity that has imprisoned women for life, and Julia Kristeva, who in her essay «Stabat Mater» points at the need to use strategically the mother’s body, transcending its biological essentialism and discovering its potential for feminine self-fulfilment), I study New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield’s metaphorical maternity (with her letters and journals as a corpus) to show the literary alternative of this writer to the restrictions of biological maternity in the heroines of her short stories.…”
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Écriture féminine and the female language of Lady Gaga by Adam Sorice

“…Reinterpreting the French feminist concept of écriture féminine or ‘writing in the feminine’, this essay contextualises Gaga’s music as demonstrative of an anarchic, female language that challenges both the phallogocentric constraints of linguistic expression and wider patriarchal culture. …”
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As trajetórias de Eleonora Menicucci de Oliveira e Angela Maria Silva Arruda entre revoluções e feminismos by Dayane Nascimento Sobreira

“…Angela Arruda, exiled in France, continued her militancy in left-wing organizations, got involved in the French feminist movement and acquired alternative lifestyle habits. …”
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Juodosios moters savikūra Gayl Jones romane Evos vyras | Black Woman’s Self-Creation in Gayl Jones’s Novel Eva’s Man by Rasa Juozapaitytė

“…The paper analyses the discourse of the black narrator and protagonist – Eva in Gayl Jones’s novel Eva’s Man. The French feminist theory of l’écriture féminine with its emphasis on textuality of gender has been applied to prove that the Afro-American woman creates her Self while writing and her text becomes the essence of her identity since any other opportunity of emotional, intellectual and spiritual evolution has been denied to her. …”
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Michel Henry's Transcendental Asexuality by Justin Pearl

“…In the present investigation, I aim to trace Henry’s thought from his account of the flesh into his analysis of the erotic encounter and, through an engagement with the French feminist tradition contemporary to his own work, expose the limits of his analysis of the incarnation and eros. …”
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La traduction garantit-elle la diffusion des idées dans une autre culture ? by Joanna Madejczyk

“…THE CASE OF L’AMOUR EN PLUS BY ELISABETH BADINTER Translation has certainly contributed to the spread of French feminist thought around the world. There are, however, translations which do not seem to have contributed significantly to the spread of this thought in Poland. …”
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The Ellipse of Contemporary Reading or the Genre Nonsense by Miomir Petrović, Ivana Ercegovac

“…Thus, the emergence of the so-called “women writers” (chick lit-literature for chicks) in many ways devalued and degraded “women’s writing” - french feminist critique of society and the emergence of “airport novel” even more simplified the thriller that is easy reading by itself. …”
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Michel Henry's Transcendental Asexuality by Justin Pearl

“…In the present investigation, I aim to trace Henry’s thought from his account of the flesh into his analysis of the erotic encounter and, through an engagement with the French feminist tradition contemporary to his own work, expose the limits of his analysis of the incarnation and eros. …”
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How Communicative Performances Can Constitute an Organization’s Self by Fabien Hildwein

“…The empirical part of this study analyses the French feminist activist group, La Barbe, which uses innovative performances to denounce the absence of women at the top of organizations. …”
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Immanence, Abjection and Transcendence through Satī/Śakti in Prabha Khaitan’s Autobiography "Anyā se ananyā" by Alessandra Consolaro

“…Best known as the writer who introduced French feminist existentialism to Hindi-speaking readers through her translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Prabha Khaitan is positioned as a Marwari woman, intellectual, successful businesswoman, poet, novelist, and feminist, which makes her a cosmopolitan figure. …”
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The Portrayal of Female Leadership in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls by Ala B. Ahmed, Meram S.S. Mohamad

“…The plot mainly surrounds the success of women in a society in which they had been considered as the second sex, as described by the French feminist figure Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949). …”
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