By situating gender relations at the core of their conceptual elaboration and inscribing their transformation as a strategic issue, feminist studies have progressively come to the fore in the human sciences' universe as a critical approach and as a problematic for change. Following a review of the three major currents of thought that have developed within, and at the fringes of, the feminist movement over the past few decades, the author asks whether feminist thought, or, rather, the different strands of current feminist thinking are still engaged in these same ends. Are they still able to contribute to the renewal of knowledge, to put forward an original social project, and to imagine the terms of a new contract between the genders? Are they able to nourish a united feminist struggle, a politics of coalition open to diversity and difference, but which loses nothing of its cohesion and rallying power? These questions serve as thematic leads for the author's discussion.