Women and the City in French Literature and Culture

Reconfiguring the Feminine in the Urban Environment

AvSiobhan McIllvanney,Gillian Ni Cheallaigh

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idees recues surrounding women's ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French, and European, literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flaneur a quintessentially male phenomenon or can there exist a true flaneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading - both individually and collectively - in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women's studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-15
Mått:138 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786834324

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Siobhan McIlvanney is Reader in French and Francophone Women's Writing at King's College London. Gillian Ni Cheallaigh is a former Lecturer in French and Francophone Women's Writing at King's College London, and currently an independent researcher.

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Series Editors' Preface List of illustrationsNotes on contributors Introduction - Siobhan McIlvanney and Gillian Ni CheallaighPart I. Images of the Flaneuse: Mediatic Representations of Women's Relationship to the CityChapter 1: A City for Young Ladies: The Parisian Flaneuse of the Journal des Demoiselles - Lucie Roussel RichardChapter 2: Unfolding the Domestic Interior: Women, Newspapers and the Nineteenth-Century City - Kathryn BrownChapter 3: Agnes Varda in Paris: The Urban Gaze of the Female Film-maker in Three Short Films - Jennifer WallaceChapter 4: Imagining on the Outskirts of the City: Duras's Le Camion and the marcheuse - Sarah CooperPart II. From the Periphery to the Centre: Marginalised Re-Inscriptions of the UrbanChapter 5: Morphologies of Becoming: Dehumanisation and Dandyism in Emile Zola's Therese Raquin - Marina StarikChapter 6: Towards a Globalised Banlieue? Resilience through Literature in Three Narratives of the `Ultraperiphery' - Nathalie SegeralChapter 7: Marriage, Pregnancy and the City in Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays - Sonja StojanovicChapter 8: Viewing the Algerian Cityscape in Nina Bouraoui's La Voyeuse interdite and Leila Sebbar's `La Jeune Fille au balcon' - Siobhan McIlvanney and Gillian Ni CheallaighPart III. Gendered Spaces, Gendered Places: The Feminisation of the City EnvironmentChapter 9: `For Their Trouble and Labour'. Women's Work Reconsidered in Late Medieval Amiens - Julie PilorgetChapter 10: City, War and Politicisation in Journal a quatre mains by Benoite and Flora Groult - Imogen LongChapter 11: C'est l'endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, Gender and Belonging in Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Eve de ses decombres - Julia WatersChapter 12: Gendered Spaces of Ageing: The Liberations and Limitations of Urban Space in Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston - Kate AverisIndex