Women and language

Abstract

Post-structural accounts of the role of language in the formation of social and individual reality have had a major impact on French intellectual debates in recent decades. In this first of two chapters exploring the French feminist view of language, I shall outline how French feminists have theorised the role of language in women’s oppression and show how language is also a central preoccupation of a range of contemporary French women’s fiction. One critic who has had an important influence on debates on language is the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, and, in keeping with my intention to present French feminism in context, I shall begin this first chapter on women and language with a brief introduction to his work.

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