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Women Matter / «Femmes Matière»

French and Francophone Women and the Material World

by Maggie Allison (Volume editor) Imogen Long (Volume editor)
©2013 Conference proceedings XI, 261 Pages
Series: Modern French Identities, Volume 109

Summary

This volume is based on papers given at the biennial Women in French conference held in Leeds in May 2011. Drawing on a range of interconnecting disciplines and forms of cultural production, it explores the relationship between French and Francophone women and the material world. Bringing together researchers from the United Kingdom, France and other Francophone countries, the book reflects the engagement of women researchers with contemporary debates.
The first section focuses on the female body, examining dance and the performing arts but also the material objectification suffered by rape victims in France. The next highlights the contradictions of the im/materiality of the body, the act of writing and the text, in terms of dichotomies, permeable identities and fluid boundaries. The third section turns its attention to the practicalities of ‘the material’ in relation to women’s engagement with the economy – the gendering of domestic work, women’s discourse, the precariousness of women’s employment and the alienating impersonality of consumer spaces. The concluding section considers the relationship of the female body to the material object, whether subverting, co-opting or indeed absorbing it. In the final chapters of the book the tactile and the visual converge in explorations of ‘the material’ in cinematic representations of the female body.

Details

Pages
XI, 261
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035304435
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034307888
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0443-5
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (February)
Keywords
dance rape employment performing arts
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2013. XI, 261 pp., 2 b/w ill., 2 tables

Biographical notes

Maggie Allison (Volume editor) Imogen Long (Volume editor)

Maggie Allison is Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Bradford. Her research interests include the women’s press, sexual harassment and the role of women in politics. Among her co-edited volumes are several arising from Women in French conferences. Imogen Long is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. Her research interests include the figure of the public intellectual in France and women’s writing. She has published work on Simone de Beauvoir, Danièle Sallenave and Françoise Parturier and her monograph Women Intellectuals in Post-68 France: Petitions and Polemics was published in 2013.

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