11 Facts About Christine Delphy

Christine Delphy was born on 1941 and is a French feminist sociologist, writer and theorist.

Christine Delphy was born in 1941 to parents who owned a local pharmacy.

Nevertheless, Christine Delphy did not always identify as a feminist, owing to stigma around the term.

Christine Delphy studied sociology at the University of Chicago, the University of Paris and the University of California, Berkeley.

Christine Delphy agreed to pursue rural sociology instead, but the question of women, and particularly the economic role women played, emerged in this project as well.

Christine Delphy arrived in the US in 1962 during the Civil Rights Movement, and says that it was in the United States that she came to see the reality of racism.

Christine Delphy returned to France and after the events of May 1968, took part in a feminist group FMA, which with other groups would eventually form the Women's Liberation Movement.

Christine Delphy is openly lesbian and was a member of the Gouines rouges.

Christine Delphy was a pioneer of materialist feminism, applying a materialist approach to gender relations.

For Christine Delphy, gender is a position in the mode of production.

Christine Delphy critiqued what she called "the invention of 'French Feminism'": she argues that most French feminists are against essentialism and very few support what was called "French Feminism" in the United States.