An accessible introduction to French feminist theory and contemporary French women's writing for non-French speakers. The book offers a context to this challenging, controversial body of work by giving clear accounts of the philosophical, post-structural and psychoanalytic debates which have had such an impact on French intellectual life in recent years, and to which French feminist writers offer a response.

SUSAN SELLERS is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Introduction
Women and Language
The (Feminine) Unconscious
Theories of Sexual Difference
A Woman's Language?
Towards an ' criture Feminine'
Conclusion.