Rendez‐vous manqués: Feminisms and anti‐racisms in France

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In this article three contexts are explored in which the discourse of fraternity obscures the specific position of women for anti‐racists: in the 1960s around the development of anti‐racist education; the 1970s and 1980s ‘new wave’ of women's and anti‐racist movements, and most recently in terms of attitudes towards Muslim women, particularly the ‘headscarf affair’ and the reception of women fleeing fundamentalist violence in Algeria. Before looking at these cases, consideration is given to how the idea of ‘fraternity’ might reinforce the marginalisation of women in France and how this fits into feminist and anti‐racist theoretical concerns about the narrowness of the way in which supposedly universalist ideas like equality and liberty have been defined.

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