Shell-Shocked Intimacies: Gender Violence and Women’s Consent in French Culture and Literature of the First World War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.The First World War generated a climate of exacerbated nationalism, deep-running anxieties over gender, and heightened masculinisation of suffering. In France, this volatile combination provided meaning to multiple ways of obscuring and trivialising diverse forms of gender-based violence and aggression towards women. The book retraces this cultural pattern by uncovering shifts and continuities in discourses on sexual consent and gender violence in French culture and literature of the First World War. This research provides historical insight and critical depth to contemporary debates on sexual consent by arguing that the notion of cultural exception in gender relations is better accounted for through the country’s history of violence and militarization. Moreover, the research frames amour à la francaise, or the so-called French exception in gender relations, as a response to the brutalization in the war and postwar period. It highlights the fact that indifference to gender violence was a shared denominator of the ‘French exception’ both now and then. It draws on a broad range of sources – including visual materials, literary works, judicial records, media sources, and testimonials – and tools from literary criticism, cultural history and critical discourse analysis to uncover a silenced past dominated for too long by a male gaze, revising in the process the historiographic outlook on gender relations and politics in the area covered.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-16
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Modern and Contemporary France
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781836243168

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo is a scholar of Francophone and Gender Studies, specialized in the study of gender violence. She holds a PhD from the City University of New York and is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at University College Dublin.

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"I found the book compelling. Well researched and written, it incorporates a variety of primary and secondary sources, engaging therefore in important discussions about representations of World War I in French history and national memory.” – Professor Venita Datta, Wellesley College

Innehållsförteckning

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTINTRODUCTIONPART I. GENDER & INTIMATE VIOLENCECHAPTER 1. Downplaying Intimate FemicidesCHAPTER 2. ‘Humorous’ Visions of Intimate Partner ViolenceCHAPTER 3. Writing the Brutalisation of Gender RelationsCHAPTER 4. Gentle KillersCHAPTER 5. ‘What if I strangled you?’PART II. SEXUAL VIOLENCE & WOMEN’S CONSENTCHAPTER 6. Sexual Violence as a Martial TabooCHAPTER 7. Cult of (Anti)-Heroes and ConsentCHAPTER 8. Vampiric MasculinityCHAPTER 9. Remembering Gendered Aggression as a Bygone EraCONCLUSION. Challenging Gender Violence in the “Country of Love”BIBLIOGRAPHY