There are two sexes. This is a reality that history will henceforth have to make its fourth principle, beyond liberty, equality, and fraternity, if it is to be consistent with its own ideals. What can intellectual, social, and political recognition of this reality contribute to the democratization process? How can we think and practice a form of citizenship predicated on parity? There are two sexes. The production of living beings (production de vivant) is tripartite, since one (male) multiplied by one (female) makes a future one (male or female). This tripartition has always been denatured by the Trinity: three that make only One. How can we break out of the infernal circle of the monos—monotheism, monarchy, monosexuality, all of which prefigure universalism?
The present volume contains a collection of texts that attempt to think further, and differently.
Feminology is what I call this epistemological field, newly opened alongside the human sciences: a promise of mutual enrichment.
1 The sciences of women seek to understand our foreclosed knowledge, which is both unconscious and excluded. Grounding the time of procreation in the space of gestation,
feminology is both a genealogy of knowledge and knowledge of genealogy. Making its way back through the natural and human sciences, it will be moving from
gyneconomy to ethics.
2I have always endeavored to think like a woman of action and to act like a woman of thought. Thus, to illustrate the psychopolitical movement I started over twenty-five years ago, I have chosen to publish a set of texts written between two symbolic dates, March 8, 1989 and March 8, 1995.
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