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M.Krzykawski,Z.Szatanik:GenderStudiesł
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Chapteroneofthefirstvolume,titled“FromGendertoGenre.FranceandIts
Institutions”iscomposedoffourarticles.Theopeningpaper,PatrickFargesand
AnneIsabelleFrançois’s“L’institutionnalisationdesGenderStudiesenFrance:
unprocessusàplusieursniveaux”isconcernedwiththeproblematictransferof
genderstudiestoFrance,whichgoesbeyondtheacademiaandisimplicatedin
thepoliticalandideologicalcontext.Thefocusofthepaperisonthediscussion
whicharoseinFranceoncetheconceptof“gender”wasintroducedtoschool
textbooksin2011,incompliancewithanewSTV(biologyandgeology)pro-
grampublishedbytheMinistryofNationalEducation.
ControversiesassociatedwiththereceptionofgenderstudiesinFranceare
alsothesubjectofAnne-CharlotteHusson’s“‘Théoriedugenre’etcontroverses
d’égalitéenFrance.”Hersemanticandlexicalanalysisshowsthattheword“gen-
der”hasoftenbeenusedindebatesongaymarriages,inresultofwhichthene-
ologism“genderideology”anditsvariety“gendertheory”formedanideological
constructusedforpoliticalaims.
In“REGINEor‘GenderGoesLegalinFrance’”MathiasMöschelclaims
thatwhereassocialsciencesandhumanitiesseemmoreopentogenderstud-
ies,Frenchlegalacademyhasbeenparticularlyresistanttochanges.Theauthor
expresseshopethatthesituationmightshifttogetherwiththeimplementationof
anewprojectcalledREGINE.
Thelastpaperinthischapter,TymonAdamczewski’s“SelectiveImport:
FrenchFeministTheoryandAnglophoneCriticalDiscourses”discussestherep-
resentationsofFrenchFeminisminAnglo-Americantheoreticaldiscourses.In
linewiththisintroduction,AdamczewskifirstsituatesFrenchFeminismwithin
thefieldofFrenchTheory1anotioncreatedoutsideofFranceandlimitedto
worksbyKristeva,Cixous,andIrigaray1andthencommentsonhowmore
contemporaryapproachesgobeyondthisreductivelabel.
Chaptertwoofourcollection,entitled“SexualBodies,”comprisesarticles
byTomaszSwoboda,ArnaudGenon,andAudreyDobrenn.Swoboda’s“Con-
structionsdelasubjectivitédanslalittératureérotiqueféminine”isdevotedto
waysofconstruingfemininityinwomen’serotic/pornographicliterature.Con-
temporarywomen’spornography,astheauthorasserts,issimultaneouslyanti-
andpro-pornographic,whichallowsittotransgresstheborderlinesoffeminist
discourse.Ultimately,itsgoalistocreateanewimageoffemininitywhichpara-
sitizesonastereotypicalpornographicimage.
ArnaudGenon’s“Pudeuretimpudeurcommemodalitésdeconstruction
d’uncorpspolitiquechezHervéGuibert”focusesonrepresentationofthebody
inHervéGuibert’swritings.Thisbody1exposedanddesiring,oremaciated
andsufferingfromAIDS1ispresentedintwomodalities:modestyandim-
modesty.InGenon’sinterpretation,however,thebodyisalsopoliticalandrejects
allheterosexualandhomosexualmodels,seekingsexualitiesandsensualities
whichgobeyondtheclichéidentitymarkers.
