Redefining Womanhood

Biographical notes

Véronique Desnain (Volume editor) Alexandra Pugh (Volume editor) Caroline Verdier (Volume editor)

Véronique Desnain is an Honorary Fellow in French at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in seventeenth-century French literature and philosophy and in contemporary French crime fiction, with a particular interest in gender. Alexandra Pugh is Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. She specialises in contemporary women’s writing and feminist theory, with a focus on abortion and reproductive justice. Caroline Verdier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. She is a specialist in French and Francophone Studies with expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, Gender Studies and Medical Humanities.