A new inspiring website by a great American Feminist, Rebecca Chalker

    I’d like to recommend a new website by Rebecca Chalker, a U.S. feminist and international activist on women’s rights and reproductive health issues whom I have been happy to meet with Simone de Beauvoirs’sister, the painter Hélène de Beauvoir. French feminists always speak higly of her accomplishments for women’s rights, health and bodies issues.  

     The website, www.clitoraltruth.com, provides information about a new online seminar that Professor Chalker is conducting, a feminist critique of the cultural history of sexuality, and about her latest book on women’s bodies.   

        Rebecca Chalker is Adjunct Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Pace University in New York City and Visiting Lecturer in Women’s Studies at Florida State University in Tallahassee.  She has also spoken at the Beauvoir Society conferences at Trent University in Canada, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. 

      She has spoken at the World Congress of Sexology in Washington, D.C. (1983), Heidelberg (1987), Yokohama, Hong Kong, Paris, and Havana.  Rebecca presented five workshops at the 4^th United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing (1995).  Since 1978, she has given numerous presentations on women’s health and rights at the American Public Health Association, the National Women’s Studies Association, and the Interstitial Cystitis Association, and as spoken frequently to women’s groups on college campuses, and in private lectures and public forums.  Her articles have appeared in Ms. magazine, The Village Voice, Cahiers de Sexologie Clinique (22:132, 1997), and in other peer-reviewed medical journals.

     It is always very inspiring to speak with her and Rebecca Chalker’s visits to France are always great occasions for French feminists to share with her on women’s issues in the context of globalisation. I hope you will enjoy as much as I do her new website.