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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2024
Michèle Le Dœuff has devoted several decades to the exploration of the relations between women, philosophy and feminism. With this in mind I went to meet the philosopher, who generously accepted to establish a correspondence with me during my doctoral research. My questions all aimed at understanding how a woman, in the 1970s, had come to devote herself to the problematical relations between women and philosophy, and to consider such a question as a legitimate philosophical object that should be explored. It was thus a question of better knowing the feminist line that runs through her whole work, based on a displacement of this problematic from the margins to the center of the philosophical thought.
1 Hélène Védrine (1926–2019) was a French woman philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. She was nominally the supervisor of Michèle Le Doeuff's PhD.
2 Bonnet, Annabelle, La barbe ne fait pas le philosophe. Les femmes et la philosophie en France (1880–1949). Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2022)Google Scholar.
3 Feminist journal founded, among others, by Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy, Colette Capitan, Colette Guillaumin. Published from 1977 to 1980.
4 Originally named “Cheveux longs, idées courtes (les femmes et la philosophie),” written in 1976 and translated into English as: Women and philosophy. Radical Philosophy 17 (1977).
5 The “rue d'Ulm” is an expression that designates the École Normale Supérieure, one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in France.
6 Mouvement pour la Liberté de l'Avortement et de la Contraception: French Movement for Freedom of Abortion and Birth Control, created in April 1973 and dissolved in 1975 after the legalization of abortion.
7 Precision of Michèle Le Dœuff: “See my article: Prométhée délaissé: De Bacon à Suchon. Communications, 78 (2005): 71–78.”
8 School created in 1880 only for girls, whose role was to train future women teachers.
9 Recruitment competition for teachers in France.
10 CAPES: Certificat d'Aptitude au Professorat de l'Enseignement du Second degré, is another recruitment competition for teachers in France.
11 Collin, Françoise, Praxis de la différence. Notes sur le tragique du sujet, Les cahiers du GRIF 46 (1992): 124–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
12 GREPH, Groupe de Recherche en Épistémologie Politique et Historique, is the Political and Historical Epistemology Research Group, created in 1975. Jacques Derrida was one of its main animators.
13 French expression to designate a former student, agrégé, who became a preparator or director of studies at the École Normale Supérieure.
14 Historically, the ENS Rue d'Ulm was a masculine institution and the ENS Fontenay was built for female students. For a long time, the first one was considered as more prestigious.
15 In French language, name given to the student coming first in the ENS entrance exam.
16 #NousToutes is a French feminist association which fights against gender violence.