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| Nouvelles Questions Féministes | |
|---|---|
| Title | Nouvelles Questions Féministes |
| Discipline | Feminist theory |
| Language | French |
| Abbreviation | NQF |
| Country | France |
| History | 1977–present |
| Frequency | Irregular |
Nouvelles Questions Féministes is a French academic journal founded in the late 1970s that became central to debates in second-wave and post-structuralist feminist theory. It emerged amid intellectual currents connected to feminist movements, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy, engaging with thinkers and institutions across Europe and the Americas. The journal served as a meeting point for discussions linking activist networks, university departments, and cultural organizations in Paris, Montreal, and Geneva.
The journal was established in 1977 by a cohort of feminists who had ties to figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva, while interacting with organizations like Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF), Société Psychanalytique de Paris, École Normale Supérieure, Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Early issues reflected conversations with activists and scholars associated with Diane di Prima, Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Anne-Marie Meffre, Christine Delphy, and institutions such as Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Université de Montréal, Université de Genève, and European Graduate School. The founding intersected with events including the aftermath of May 1968 events in France, debates around the Council of Europe, and international conferences hosted by International Council of Women forums.
NQF articulated an editorial stance drawing on psychoanalytic traditions linked to Jacques-Alain Miller, structuralist and post-structuralist theory associated with Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and political thought referencing Antonio Gramsci, Karl Marx, and Alexandra Kollontai. It foregrounded themes such as sexual difference in the lineage of Luce Irigaray, gender and language in the vein of Julia Kristeva, and lesbianist critiques influenced by Monique Wittig and Adrienne Rich. The journal routinely engaged with artists and writers like Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Colette, Marguerite Duras, and institutions such as Musée d'Orsay and Centre Pompidou to discuss intersections of literature, visual arts, and feminist thought. Editorial pieces referenced legal actors and landmark laws debated in bodies like Assemblée nationale (France) and Conseil constitutionnel.
Regular and guest contributors included theorists and activists with profiles connected to Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Monique Wittig, Christine Delphy, Luce Irigaray, Bracha Ettinger, Irène Théry, Françoise Héritier, Geneviève Fraisse, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Donna Haraway, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Julia Serano, Angela Davis, Sally Haslanger, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Catherine Clément, Marta Segarra, Evelyne Morin and researchers attached to CNRS, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, and London School of Economics. The journal engaged with psychoanalytic interlocutors from École de la Cause Freudienne, feminist historians associated with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and queer theorists linked to Stonewall riots historiography.
NQF hosted heated exchanges on sexual difference versus social constructionism, involving interlocutors who referenced the writings and legacies of Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and Julia Kristeva. Controversies included polemics over psychoanalysis sparked by proponents of Jacques Lacan and critics connected to Adrienne Rich and Gayatri Spivak, disputes over essentialism versus anti-essentialism recalling debates raised by Simone Weil-inspired moralists, and arguments on lesbian visibility and separatism linked to activist moments such as the 1970s lesbian feminist movement in cities like Paris, New York City, and Montreal. The journal also confronted institutional challenges engaging with funding bodies such as Ministry of Culture (France), academic tenure committees at Université de Paris, and publishing negotiations with houses akin to Éditions du Seuil.
Published in French with occasional bilingual contributions, the journal appeared in numbered issues, special dossiers, and conference proceedings involving partners like Maison de la Culture, Institut Français, Université de Genève, and Université de Montréal. Distribution networks included academic libraries such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, university presses like Presses Universitaires de France, and international wholesalers serving collections at Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and archival holdings in Smithsonian Institution. Formats ranged from print periodicals to later digital archives hosted by university repositories connected to OpenEdition and consortia including HathiTrust.
Scholars and activists across continents—linked to New York University, University of Toronto, Université Paris 8, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Yale University, and McGill University—cited the journal in debates on sexual difference, queer theory, intersectionality, and feminist psychoanalysis. Its influence reached curricula in departments at École Normale Supérieure, seminar series at Centre Georges Pompidou, and research programs at CNRS and Max Planck Society. The journal shaped dialogues among figures such as Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, and bell hooks, affecting trajectories in feminist philosophy, queer studies, literary criticism, and psychoanalytic theory.
Archival collections of the journal's issues are preserved in institutions including Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Université de Montréal, University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, British Library, and digital repositories associated with OpenEdition and Gallica. Scholarly retrospectives referencing the journal appear in edited volumes published by presses like Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Éditions du Seuil, and Presses Universitaires de France, and are taught in graduate seminars at Université Paris 8, Columbia University, Harvard University, and University of California, Berkeley. The journal's legacy continues to inform contemporary debates connecting figures and institutions across transnational feminist networks.
Category:Feminist journals Category:French-language journals Category:Academic journals established in 1977