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Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French womens movement or Mouvement de Libration des Femmes (197081). It considers womens art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s Hlne Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May 68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.