Beauvoir and Her Sisters: The Politics of Women's Bodies in France

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wu Index abortion: laws, 47, 65–70; manifestos, 15–16, 34, 78n7; statistics, 16, 78n8. See also reproductive rights Abray, Jane, 5 access to political office, 1, 69–70, 74 Agulhon, Maurice, 75 Allwood, Gill, 68, 73 Anderson, Benedict, xiii–xiv, 73–74 Anthony, Susan B., 31 anti-abortion movements, 13, 50–51, 66–68. See also reproductive rights Applewhite, Harriet B., 4 “bad faith” of women, 30–31 Bardot, Brigitte, 75 Barthes, Roland, 43 Beauvoir, Simone de: abortion rights support movement, 16; ambivalences, 70–71; biographical information, 21; as exceptional woman, 20; female corporeality , 19–20; on female identity, 21–22; as feminist voice, 18; gender relations analysis, 24–25; Le Deuxième sexe publication (1949), xiv; manifesto’s role, 60–61; on marriage, 25; Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF), 34; patriarchal society and women’s bodies, 26; postwar consumer culture criticism, 19; representative publications, 57; reversal of gender inequalities, 26; social reform and women’s liberation, 31–34; women’s political agency, 31–34 Les Belles Images (Beauvoir), 26–30, 70–71 Benjamin, Walter, 76 Berlant, Lauren, xxi–xxii birthrates, 11–12, 78n6 Bobigny trial, 16 “bourgeois public sphere,” 6–7 Burning Dishrag, 58, 62–63 Butler, Judith, 43–44 Les Cahiers du féminisme, 56, 60 “Cambridge School” of political theory, xv Canto, Nicole, 59 Certeau, Michel de, 36 Choisir la cause des femmes, 16 citizenship, xvi Code civil, 7 Code Napoléon, 7 collective womanhood, 62–65, 68–70. See also “imagined sisterhood” “Combat pour la libération de la femme,” 58 Conner, Susan P., 5 Constant, Benjamin, 3 consumerism, xxi, 2, 47–49, 52–53, 71 context of thesis, xii–xv Corbí Saéz, María Isabel, 29 Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 23 Declaration of the Rights of Women (Gouges), 6 definitions: citizenship, xvi; discourse, xvi; feminism, xvi–xvii, 77n1; parity (parité), 100 Index xx; “sisterhood,” xvii–xix; women’s rights activism, xvi–xvii DeJean, Joan, 6 Delphy, Christine, 60 Deraismes, Maria, 9 Deroin, Jeanne, 8 Le Deuxième sexe (Beauvoir), xiv, xxi, 18, 30–31, 33 discourse, xvi domestic objectification of women, 22–24. See also paternalism Le Droit des femmes, 9 eating disorders, 27, 29, 79n6 elective office access, 1, 69–70 Elle: abortion content, 50–53; conflation of politics and consumption, 23–24; female corporeality, 47–49; founding and readership, 42; “imagined sisterhood,” 52–53; Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF), 36–37, 45–46; readership demographics, 38–39; readership poll, 35; reproductive rights vs. consumerism, 44–45, 47–49, 52–53, 71; sexual liberation , 44–45; Women’s General Assembly , 46; women’s issues advocacy, 36–37; women’s rights activism, 45–46, 79n4 Elle Foundation, 38, 79n3 Elles voient rouges, 56 existentialist philosophy, 34 female consumer, 35–39, 41–43 female corporeality: Elle, 47–49; feminism and control of one’s own body, 7–8; Le Deuxième sexe (Beauvoir), 30–31; Les Belles Images (Beauvoir), 26–30 feminism, xvi–xviii, 77n1, 77n3 Féministes révolutionnaires (liberal feminists ), 56, 59 feminist press. See feminist reviews feminist reviews: abortion discussion, 60– 70; characteristics, 58; collective womanhood , 62–65; consciousness development , 57–60; list, 56; manifesto’s role, 60–61; as political engagement form, 58–59; reading and writing, 54–55, 62–63; reproductive rights, 60–70; “secondwave ” feminism, 55; tradition, 55 Des Femmes en mouvements, 56, 59–60, 67 Des Femmes en mouvements hebdo, 56, 59–60 Les Femmes s’entêtent, 56 Fishwick, Sarah, 25–26 Flaubert, Gustave, 37 La Fondation d’entreprise ELLE, 38, 79n3 Fraisse, Geneviève, 4 Freeman, Jo, 55–56 French Revolution, 4–5, 6–7 Gaulle, Charles de, 13–14, 23 Gender Trouble (Butler), 44 Giroud, Françoise, 44 Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 17 Gouges, Olympe de, 6 Groupe information santé (GIS), 14, 64 Habermas, Jürgen, 5 Halimi, Gisèle, 16 Hall, Stuart, 36 Hesse, Carla, 4, 5 Histoires d’elles, 56 historical background: anti-abortion legislation of 1923, 13; “bourgeois public sphere,” 5–6; French Revolution, 4–5, 6–7, 77n1; literacy limitations, 4–5; medieval Salic Law, 2; “modern woman,” 12–13; overview, 1–2; Paris Commune of 1871, 9; pétroleuses (women incendiaries), 9; pronatalist policies, 13; reproductive rights, 14–18; Revolution of 1848, 8; Second Empire, 9; social contract theories, 3–4; Vichy regime , 13; voting rights, 13–14; women and birthrates, 11–12, 78n6; women’s organization suppression, 5; women’s rights focus eras, 1; women’s writing emergence, 5–6; World Wars I and...