‘Taking Up Space’

This book will mainly be of interest to an academic audience, for scholarly studies and as instructional material. As the first edited volume on the representations in various cultural productions of women at work in contemporary France, it will be particularly useful to scholars writing and teaching on the question of gender and labour in post-68 France.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction - Siham Bouamer and Sonja StojanovicPART IBehind Closed Doors: Work and Intimate SpacesA Transmedial and Transtemporal Reading of Labour on the Run in Albertine - Sarrazin’s L’AstragalePolly GalisGood Housekeeping: Domestic Noir and Domestic Work in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce - Ciara GormanA Woman’s Huis clos: Exhausted Feminism in Paule Constant’s Confidence pour confidence - Jennifer WillgingA Life’s Work: Accounting for Birth in Naissances - Amaleena DamléSexual Identity as Work in Mireille Best’s Il n’y a pas d’hommes au paradis - Blase A. ProvitolaPsychoanalytical Work in Chahdortt Djavann’s Je ne suis pas celle que je suis - Rebecca RosenbergPART IIRevolving Doors: Liminal and Precarious Spaces‘Be proud of all the Fatimas’: From Alienated Labour to Poetic Consciousness in Philippe Faucon’s Fatima - Siham BouamerChimerical Cashiers: Exposure, Ableism and the Foreign Body in Marie-Hélène Lafon’s Gordana and Nos vies - Sonja StojanovicSubterranean Space and Subjugation: ‘Being Below’ in Delphine de Vigan’s Les Heures souterraines - Dorthea Fronsman-CecilIn Concrete Terms: Gendering Labour in Anne Garréta’s Dans l’béton - Jennifer CarrWoman at Sea? Space and Work in Catherine Poulain’s Le grand marin - Amy WigelsworthFrom Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi’s Professional Transition - Maxime FoersterPART III From Opening a Few Doors to Blowing Them OffWomen’s Bénévolat militant at the Beginning of the MLF - Sandra DarocziWomen Working – Women Rebelling. Female Community and Gender Relations in Ah!Nana - Valentina Denzel ‘Putting Us Back in Our Place’: #MeToo, Women and the Literary/Cultural Establishment - Mercédès BaillargeonBreaking Down Barriers and Advocating for Change in the French Film Industry: The Career and Activism of Actress Aïssa Maïga - Leslie Kealhofer-KempUnapologetically Visible? Representing and Reassessing Contemporary French Womanhood in Dix Pour Cent - Loïc BourdeauTracées to Black Excellence? Black Women at Work in Mariannes Noires by Mame-Fatou Niang and Kaytie Nielsen - Johanna Montlouis-GabrielConclusion - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic