French feminism collapsed revolutionary transformation into the mere achievement of feminine subjectivity.

Evidence

At the same time, in positing ‘‘the feminine’’ as the utopian alternative to patriarchical domination, French feminism implicitly argues that the achievement of a feminine subjectivity and/or cultural-political-psychic practice is, itself, the revolution. The goal of utopian transformation, lodged in modernity, thereby comes to be identified with the achievement of a certain kind of subjectivity. This subjectivity is not just a precursor or prerequisite of revolutionary transformation, as it is, for example, for Marcuse. It is, itself, that transformation. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 836

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts sharply with Marcuse, whose account of subjectivity as prerequisite is echoed from his treatment elsewhere in the book. — connects to: Orthodox Marxism reduces woman’s oppression to economic capacity and class — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 144; The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 865
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does reducing revolution to a subjectivity achievement make political change purely psychological, and where does that leave structural protest?

Broader Connections

• Orthodox Marxism reduces woman’s oppression to economic capacity and class #complicates (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 144
• The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern #complicates (0.82) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 865