ANTI-FEMINISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM - A MA RRIAGE MADE IN FRANCE

Significant strains of anti-Americanism and antifeminism - diverse in form and content - exist in French history and culture. This article e xamines recent examples of how the two have been brought together in a powerful marriage. The first is that of the group ''Psychanalyse et p olitique'' which vilified American feminism as a tool in forging its o wn identity as The French women's liberation movement. The second is t he use, by left-wing intellectuals, of the so-called American politica l correctness debate. PC, which resonates as Parti Communiste, is thei r new equivalent of Stalinism. Specifically, American feminism is ridi culed and portrayed as a threat to French universalism. The violent re action against American feminism serves as a warning to French women n ot to question the commonly held belief of a Gallic consensual relatio n of seduction between the sexes.