%0 Book
%A Véronique Desnain
%A Alexandra Pugh
%A Caroline Verdier
%D 2027
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2235-4123
%@ 9781803748092
%T Redefining Womanhood
%B Agency, Voice, and Identity in Francophone Women’s Cultural Production
%R 10.3726/b22412
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1499804
%X This collection of essays by emerging and established scholars offers new insights into a range of work by women writers, artists, and performers from France and the Francophone world. Spanning prose, poetry, music, and theatre, the works examined in this volume challenge patriarchal clichés and contest damaging misrepresentations. Giving voice to a range of experiences and identities, these works are shown to (re-)define womanhood as an expansive, meaningful term and as a site of resilience, autonomy, and self-reflection.  Writers and artists whose work is studied in this volume include Nathacha Appanah, Marguerite Duras, Mylène Farmer, Violette Leduc, and Leïla Slimani. The essays collected here paint a rich and exciting picture of the work being done by scholars in the broad field of cultural production by women in French.
%K feminism, women, French, Francophone, identity, agency, gender, rape, consent, language, queer, motherhood, psychogeography, ecofeminism, intersectionality, sexuality
%G English