This article discusses the relation between second-wave feminism and Slovenian literature, focusing on the poetics of female authors. It begins by addressing the relations between the 1968 student movement and the struggle for women’s emancipation, particularly the literary and theoretical innovations of women in France with an emphasis on the symbolic position claimed by the authors around the écriture féminine circle. After presenting the second wave of the women’s movement in Slovenia, the article sketches out the Slovenian reception of écriture féminine and sets up the framework for a further exploration of the emergence of écriture féminine among poets in the period 1964–1980. During that period, there was no Slovenian equivalent of écriture féminine. However, as écriture féminine was emerging in France, some emancipatory stirrings in Slovenian poetry were felt, particularly in the work of two female poets of an earlier generationand one author who had participated in the student movement.
