Parcours de femmes
Subtitle: twenty years of women in French
By: Maggie Allison and Angela Kershaw, editors
Series: Modern French identities -- v. 73
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783034302081
Subjects: Feminism and literature; Feminism; History
Description: This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies and investigates the theme of trajectories in French and Francophone women's lives and writings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The parcours of women in French, UK / Maggie Allison and Diana Holmes; title: Tracking lives: women's biography in perspective / Siân Reynolds; title: Trajectories of two women's libraries: a comparative study of the Bibliothèque Léonie La Fontaine and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand  / Caroline Verdier; title: A business trajectory: assessing female representation in Le petit journal, Europe's first mass circulation daily / Jane Chapman; title: "Femme fatale" or "Femme Phénix"? The discourse-trajectory of 2007 presidential candidate Ségolène Royal / Maggie Allison; title: Hello, goodbye? Women's trajectories within the French National Assembly / Manda Green; title: Ecrire pour me parcourir: Gisèle Halimi's parcours and the role of her autobiography / Imogen Long; title: Trajectories of homeless women in France / Estelle Soudant-Depelchin; title: Nomadic trajectories: postfeminism and contemporary women's writing in French / Amaleena Damlé; title: An illusory journey: the mermaid's trajectory in Ying Chen's fiction / Gabrielle Parker; title: Du dedans au dehors: trajectories of the self in diaries by Annie Ernaux / Elise Hugueny-Léger; title: Marie Chaix's trajectory as a writer: the ever present past and the influence of feminism / Nicole Thatcher; title: Feminising war experience: representations of the second World War in Québécois historical fiction / Florence Tilch; title: Reading Victor Margueritte and Léon Frapié: motherhood, the emancipated woman and female identity / Jurate Kaminskas; title: I'm going back where I came from: travels in language and prose in Marie Etienne's Sensò, la guerre and Silvia Baron-Supervielle's Le livre du retour / Dawn M. Cornelio; title: The hijacking of a genre: French female film-makers and the road movie / Michelle Royer; title: Ella Maillart and Laurence Deonna: impressions of the USSR / Joy Charnley; title: "For lust of knowing what should not be known": Ella Maillart, Ethel Mannin and the journey to Russia in the 1930s / Angela Kershaw.