Lesbian inscriptions in Francophone society and culture
By: edited by Renate Günther and Wendy Michallat
Series: Durham modern languages series. FM -- 30; Durham modern languages series -- 30.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780719085888
Subjects: Lesbianism; Lesbianism in literature; French literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English with one chapter in French.
Table of contents: title: Baudelaire, lesbian poet? A place for women in Les Fleurs du Mal / David Evans; title: The lesbian as 'femme-écran'? Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or and Akerman's La Captive / Lucille Cairns; title: Female friendships in contemporary popular films by French women directors / Sophie Bélot; title: In the margins and off-centre: lesbian characters on French television 1995-2005 / Brigitte Rollet; title: Violette Leduc écrivaine et lesbienne: du mythe à la myst[i]fication / Mireille Brioude; title: The lesbian body in motion: representations of corporeality and sexuality in the novels of Mireille Best / Stephanie Schechner; title: Female masculinities and Simone de Beauvoir / Ursula Tidd; title: Outings on the inside: lesbian spaces in the prison narratives of Albertine Sarrazin and Elisabeth Cons / Amanda Crawley Jackson; title: The pleasures of discovery: representations of queer space by Brassaï and Colette / Frances E. Hutchins; title: Elsie de Wolfe, Natalie Clifford Barney, and the lure of Versailles: picturesque spectres and conservative aesthetics of female homoeroticism / Sheila Crane.