(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #225 - Read: Nicole Van Enis: Feminisms plural (fr)

Nicole Van Enis is a feminist activist and long one of the leaders of the association 
self-managed library of Li?ge, Barricade. It proposes, in less than a hundred pages, 
exploring the history movement and feminist theories. ---- The first chapter recalls some 
fundamentals. The author first sets out two definitions of feminism as awareness of 
personal and collective. It affects both men and women. Furthermore, feminism is not a 
sectoral fight, but cross. Finally, the author reaffirms the policy of the feminist 
movement: it gives a target of radical social transformation. Note that it also makes a 
point about the notion of "gender" is widely used today. ---- In the second part of the 
book, the author returns to the classification by waves is used (although also discussed) 
by some feminist theorists to organize the movement's history.

It begins by recalling the beginnings of the movement in particular at the time of the 
French Revolution. But the first wave unfolds really until the late nineteenth century and 
during the first part of the twentieth century to demand equal civil and political rights 
between men and women. The second wave took off from the late 1960s. The author presents 
it as marked by a claim of sexual and personal liberation. The third wave, which emerges 
from the 1980s, is described by the author of the transnational global network. The 
chapter is also decorated with a timeline, as well as a short history of feminist 
publications in France and Belgium.

The third part focuses on exposure of the main theoretical currents of feminism: liberal 
feminism, egalitarian, Marxist feminism, radical feminism materialistic differentialist 
radical feminism, post feminism (or postf?minisme postmodern queer theory), eco-feminism. 
It also makes a lot aware antifeminist said "masculinist". The chapter concludes with a 
table that contains a synthesis of the different currents evoked. The book concludes with 
a short summary and a bibliography. Finally, a short introduction very educational to 
learn to feminism.

Irene (AL Orleans)

Nicole Van Enis, Feminisms plural , Brussels, Editions Aden, 2012, 87 p., 10 euros