TY  - BOOK
AU  - Véronique Desnain
AU  - Alexandra Pugh
AU  - Caroline Verdier
PY  - 2027
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-4123
SN  - 9781803748092
TI  - Redefining Womanhood
T2  - Agency, Voice, and Identity in Francophone Women’s Cultural Production
DO  - 10.3726/b22412
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1499804
N2  - 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.
KW  - feminism, women, French, Francophone, identity, agency, gender, rape, consent, language, queer, motherhood, psychogeography, ecofeminism, intersectionality, sexuality
LA  - English
ER  -