''Questions féministes'' (''Feminist Questions'') was a French

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

journal published from 1977 to 1980.

History

The journal was founded by a group of feminists that included

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...

Christine Delphy Christine Delphy (born 1941) is a French feminist sociologist, writer and theorist. Known for pioneering materialist feminism, she co-founded the French women's liberation movement (Mouvement de Libération des Femmes, or MLF) in 1970 and the j ...

, Colette Capitan,

Colette Guillaumin Colette Guillaumin (28 January 1934 – 10 May 2017), was a sociologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a French feminist. Guillaumin is an important theorist of the mechanisms of racism and sexism, and relations of dom ...

(although she does not appear on the editorial board that inaugurates the journal), Emmanuèle de Lesseps,

Nicole-Claude Mathieu Nicole-Claude Mathieu (1937–2014) was a French anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultura ...

, Monique Plaza, and later

Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled ''The Straigh ...

. It published for three years, ultimately dissolving over divided perspectives on heterosexuality, which came to a head in the May 1980 issue with opposing essays from Wittig on the one hand (" The Straight Mind") and Emmanuèle de Lesseps ("Heterosexuality and Feminism") on the other. The editorial collective agreed to stop publishing ''Questions feministes,'' and one group of editors, including Delphy and Beauvoir, left to launch a new journal instead, called '' Nouvelles Questions Féministes'' (New Feminist Questions).

References

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