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Badinter, Elisabeth ( 1944-). A philosopher and the first female professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, Badinter is the author of numerous sociohistorical essays, some of which are published under the title L'Amour en plus ( 1980). In this work, she argues that it is not instinct but societal conditioning that instills maternal love. Although she describes herself as a feminist, clearly indebted to Simone de Beauvoir*, she acknowledges that militant feminists-- who see her as a privileged woman--question her commitment to their cause. In her more recent works, L'Un est l'Autre ( 1986) and Qu'est-ce qu'une femme? ( 1989), she warns of the dangers for women of emphasizing gender-based differences--these differences may be used to maintain a patriarchal society in which women are judged to be inferior. After working with her husband on a biography of Condorcet, Badinter addressed the question of what defines a man in today's society in X Y. De l'identité masculine ( 1992). Badinter's work proposes a
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Publication information:
Book title: The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature.
Contributors: Eva Martin Sartori - Editor, Colette H. Winn - Editor, Perry Gethner - Editor, Samia I. Spencer - Editor, Juliette Parnell-Smith - Editor, Mary Rice-DeFosse - Editor, Susan Ireland - Editor, Patrice J. Proulx - Editor.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: Westport, CT.
Publication year: 1999.
Page number: 34.
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