THE INVENTION OF FRENCH FEMINISM - AN ESS ENTIAL MOVE

In the last fifteen yeats, Anglo-American feminists have been talking of ''French Feminism''. This article aims at proving: - that ''French Feminism'' is a fabrication ''made in U.S.A.'' and in Great Britain; - which exhibits the greatest indifference to the actual Women's Moveme nt and to feminist studies in France; - that it is a strictly anglo-am erican school of thought which uses the ''French'', in an imperialisti c way, for domestic agendas: to attack the feminist movements as well as the constructionist and materialistic feminist approaches in their own countries; - that furthermore, this anglo-american strand tries to put male authors centre-stage once more, and to blur the distinction between feminism and anti-feminism.