Christine Delphy

feminism in transnational times, a conversation with Christine Delphy: an edited transcription of Christine Delphy and Sylvie Tissot’s public talk at the LSE

This article is an edited transcription of Christine Delphy’s public conversation with Sylvie Tissot, held at the LSE on 10 February 2016, and organised by the LSE Department of Gender Studies and Feminist Review. Christine Delphy first addresses, by way of a critique of French universalism, her more recent engagement with the anti-war movement and against the prohibition of the Islamic headscarf in France. She then discusses her lifelong theoretical work, from the conceptualisation of gender as denaturalising sex and the ‘principle of partition’ in the 1980s and 1990s to the invention of materialist feminism in the 1970s. The article opens with an introduction to the life and work of Christine Delphy and closes with a transcript of the Q&As.