Cherchez la femme
Subtitle: women and values in the Francophone world
By: edited by Erika Fülöp and Adrienne Angelo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781443829335
Subjects: Feminism and literature; Human body in literature; Feminism; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: Exploring the ambiguities of feminism with Rachilde / Adeline Soldin; title: Sexual politics in early French feminism: Natalie Clifford Barney's Pensées d'une amazone / Chelsea Ray; title: Virginie despentes or a French third-wave of feminism? / Michèle A. Schaal; title: Déwé Gorodé: Cognitive dissonance and the re-negotiation of values / Raylene Ramsay; title: Equal in death?: The deaths of three leading Haitian feminists / Katie Billotte; title: Christine de Pizan et l'échelle de l'imagination / Kate Robin; title: "Une femme héroïque, pleine de courage et de résolution": representations of Queen Semiramis in Christine de Pizan and Paul Valéry / Marcelline Block; title: Claude de France, mère/mer de vertueuse mémoire / Lidia Radi; title: Femmes par l'esprit / Adriana Bontea; title: Des femmes de culture et de pouvoir au dix-huitième siècle: Lady Montagu et Madame du Boccage / Cécile Champonnois; title: The suffering woman in nineteenth-century French oratorio / Sarah Ruddy; title: Présence du corps dans l'oeuvre de Marie-Claire Bancquart / Béatrice Bonhomme; title: Au seuil du texte / Geneviève Guétemme; title: The ballet body beautiful: pleasure and pain in Amélie Nothomb's Robert des noms propres / Áine Larkin; title: Amélie's horse: writing as Jouissance in Nothomb / Erika Fülöp; title: "Imaginez-vous, à me lire, que je fais mon portrait?": looking at the narrator in women's autobiographical texts / Laurie Corbin; title: L'ecriture du soi et un certain théâtre de l'obscène dans des romans québécois récents / Lucie Lequin; title: Altering alterity: Sylvie Germain's rewriting of the Lévinassian "Triangle" / Amy L. Allen Sekhar; title: The poetics of mourning: language and self-knowledge in Nathalie Rheims's Postmortem encounters / Adrienne Angelo.