Editing Difference feminism (section)

== In France ==
{{Further|French feminist theory}}

Commonly labeled "French feminism",<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Gambaudo |first=Sylvie A. |date=May 2007 |title=French Feminism vs Anglo-American Feminism: A Reconstruction |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350506807075816 |journal=European Journal of Women's Studies |language=en |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=93–108 |doi=10.1177/1350506807075816 |issn=1350-5068}}</ref> the work of [[Hélène Cixous]], [[Luce Irigaray]] and [[Julia Kristeva]] has been considered a form of difference feminism.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Valpione |first=Giulia |date=December 2022 |title=Philosophy and its Institutions: Politics at the Heart of the Canon |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2051536722000324/type/journal_article |journal=Hegel Bulletin |language=en |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=353–370 |doi=10.1017/hgl.2022.32 |issn=2051-5367|doi-access=free }}</ref> Their [[psychoanalytic]] approach to sexual difference perceived the search for equality as a [[phallocentric]] erasure of the specificities of the female body.<ref name=":0" /> Like the American differentialist authors, "French feminists are regularly accused of essentialism."<ref name=":0" />{{rp|101}}