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French Feminism has a long history stretching back at least to the Middle Ages, where we see evidence of women denouncing inequality and the unjust subordination of their sex. In the late 1960s and early 1970s of the twentiety century, however, one finds a radical break with the feminism that preceded it. Marked by a libertarian culture influenced by Marxism, socialism and psychoanalysis, the feminism the began in the 1970s rejected the reformist and legal vision ...
Like earlier volumes in this famous series, Subaltern Studies X focuses on the historical practices of the subaltern groups and presses that inquiry towards the intractable presence of subalternity in dominant formations and representations. Here in this volume, Ishita Banerjee Dube, Indrani Chatterjee, Kaushik Ghosh, Sundar Kaali, Vijay Prashad, Christopher Pinney, Sudesh Mishra and Rosemary Sayigh reinforce the value of the subaltern perspective in ...