Women and the city in French literature and culture : reconfiguring the feminine in the urban environment /

An exciting, interdisciplinary collection of essays examining women's relationship to the city, which radically challenges many of the accepted commonplaces surrounding women's roles and positions within an urban space typically characterised as masculine.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McIlvanney, Siobhán (Editor ), Ni Cheallaigh, Gillian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.
Colección:French and francophone studies.
Temas:
Women and literature > France > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > France > History and criticism.
French literature > History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Women in popular culture > France.
Urban women > France.
Femmes et littérature > France > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > Histoire et critique.
Espaces publics dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la culture populaire > France.
Femmes en milieu urbain > France.
Women in popular culture.
Urban women.
Women and literature.
French literature.
Feminism and literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A City for Young Ladies: The Parisian Flaneuse of the Journal des Demoiselles / Lucie Roussel Richard
  • Unfolding the Domestic Interior: Women, Newspapers and the Nineteenth-Century City / Kathryn Brown
  • Agnès Varda in Paris: The Urban Gaze of the Female Film-maker in Three Short Films / Jennifer Wallace
  • Imagining on the Outskirts of the City: Duras's Le Camion and the marcheuse / Sarah Cooper
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  • Morphologies of Becoming: Dehumanisation and Dandyism in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin / Marina Starik
  • Towards a Globalised Banlieue? Resilience through Literature in Three Narratives of the `Ultraperiphery' / Nathalie Ségeral
  • Marriage, Pregnancy and the City in Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays / Sonja Stojanovic
  • Viewing the Algerian Cityscape in Nina Bouraoui's La Voyeuse interdite and Leila Sebbar's `Lajeune Fille au balcon' / Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
  • `For Their Trouble and Labour': Women's Work Reconsidered in Late Medieval Amiens / Julie Pilorget
  • City, War and Politicisation in Journal à quatre mains by Benoîte and Flora Groult / Imogen Long
  • C'est l'endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, Gender and Belonging in Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Ève de ses décombres / Julia Waters
  • Gendered Spaces of Ageing: The Liberations and Limitations of Urban Space in Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston / Kate Averis.

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