[lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology

[Charles Brown]

Hi Julio!  He may be right, although Simone de Beauvoir uses 'liberation
of women' in the Second Sex in 1949, and part of the context had to be
the liberation of France.  That was translated into English in 1953. 
There is also the Algerian NLF, before the Vietnamese NLF. It seems
right, though, that its use in the U.S. was encouraged by the Vietnamese
use of the term.  Feminists likely got it from De Beauvoir initially,
though.

Jenny Brown

^^^^
CB: Also, the Vietnamese are in the Leninist school in which "national
liberation" or the national question goes back to Lenin's theses on
self-determination and liberation of oppressed nations and colonies. 
The concept of self-determination might be useful in women's liberation
as well.

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