Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals. This book aims redresses this balance by studying these forgotten intellectuals creating a cultural and theoretical re-evaluation of the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Women Intellectuals 2. In the Eye of the Storm: Women and Polemics in the Public Space 3. La mise en question du réel: Danièle Sallenave 4. À la recherche de soi-même: Gisèle Halimi 5. Dans la lignée de Beauvoir: Elisabeth Badinter Conclusion Bibliography Index

Imogen Long is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull, UK, and her research interests include the figure of the public intellectual in France and women's writing. She has previously published articles and chapters on Simone de Beauvoir, Danièle Sallenave and Françoise Parturier.