Siobhán McIlvanney is Professor of French and Francophone Women’s Writing at King’s College London. Shirley Jordan is Professor Emerita of French Studies at Newcastle University.

Scrutiny of the differential distributions of power is a critical contemporary endeavour. This volume proposes a very welcome reassessment of what is at stake for women as they renegotiate power across private and public domains, and against the enduring backdrop of the French insistence on universalism. It offers a powerful platform for womens voices and for the shaping of womens narratives.

• Series Editors’ PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionShirley Jordan and Siobhán McIlvanneyPart I. Contestatory Performances of Women’s PowerChapter 1: Non-Motherhood: Power, Marginality and Un/Fulfilment in Inassouvies, nos vies (2008) by Fatou Diome.Jasmine CooperChapter 2:Female Bodily (Dis)Empowerment: Nelly Arcan’s Corps and CorpusPolly GalisChapter 3:The Power of Queering a Relationship: Liane de Pougy and Natalie Clifford BarneyRachael StockdalePart II. Francophone Empowerment Beyond the HexagoneChapter 4:Sex, Power and Violence in Théo Ananissoh’s Delikatessen (2017)Antonia WimbushChapter 5:Sexual Exploitation and Gendered Power Dynamics: Female Genital Mutilation in Adelle Barry’s ‘En attendant minuit’ (2015)Maria TomlinsonChapter 6:Re-membering Narrative Power: The Myth of Marie BashkirtsheffNoëlle Brown LivelyPart III. The Transmediatic Power of WomenChapter 7:Renegade Mothers in the Mamasphere: Exercising Maternal Power in Caroline Allard’s Les Chroniques d’une mère indigneJulie RodgersChapter 8:Feminist Fertilisation and the Power of the Menstrual Stain in Contemporary Bandes dessinéesAndrea JonssonChapter 9:‘My Hands are Made for Gold!’: Female Power, Spatial Dynamics and Genre in Houda Benyamina’s Divines (2016)Ros MurrayChapter 10:Women, Power and the Pandemic in France: Covid-19 from a Feminist PerspectiveShirley JordanPart IV: The Empowering Role of NarrativeChapter 11:Framing Authorial Power: Claire Legendre and the Limits of (Auto)FictionDawn CornelioChapter 12:The Complexity of (Patriarchal) Power in Two Plays by Claire LegendreMichèle A. SchaalChapter 13:Marie Ndiaye’s En famille: A Feminist Consciousness of Intersectional Power Relations in FranceAlison MarmontChapter 14:The Architecture of Power in Recent French Care Home NarrativesSiobhán McIlvanneyIndex

Siobhán McIlvanney is Professor of French and Francophone Women’s Writing at King’s College London. Shirley Jordan is Professor Emerita of French Studies at Newcastle University.

Scrutiny of the differential distributions of power is a critical contemporary endeavour. This volume proposes a very welcome reassessment of what is at stake for women as they renegotiate power across private and public domains, and against the enduring backdrop of the French insistence on universalism. It offers a powerful platform for womens voices and for the shaping of womens narratives.

• Series Editors’ PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionShirley Jordan and Siobhán McIlvanneyPart I. Contestatory Performances of Women’s PowerChapter 1: Non-Motherhood: Power, Marginality and Un/Fulfilment in Inassouvies, nos vies (2008) by Fatou Diome.Jasmine CooperChapter 2:Female Bodily (Dis)Empowerment: Nelly Arcan’s Corps and CorpusPolly GalisChapter 3:The Power of Queering a Relationship: Liane de Pougy and Natalie Clifford BarneyRachael StockdalePart II. Francophone Empowerment Beyond the HexagoneChapter 4:Sex, Power and Violence in Théo Ananissoh’s Delikatessen (2017)Antonia WimbushChapter 5:Sexual Exploitation and Gendered Power Dynamics: Female Genital Mutilation in Adelle Barry’s ‘En attendant minuit’ (2015)Maria TomlinsonChapter 6:Re-membering Narrative Power: The Myth of Marie BashkirtsheffNoëlle Brown LivelyPart III. The Transmediatic Power of WomenChapter 7:Renegade Mothers in the Mamasphere: Exercising Maternal Power in Caroline Allard’s Les Chroniques d’une mère indigneJulie RodgersChapter 8:Feminist Fertilisation and the Power of the Menstrual Stain in Contemporary Bandes dessinéesAndrea JonssonChapter 9:‘My Hands are Made for Gold!’: Female Power, Spatial Dynamics and Genre in Houda Benyamina’s Divines (2016)Ros MurrayChapter 10:Women, Power and the Pandemic in France: Covid-19 from a Feminist PerspectiveShirley JordanPart IV: The Empowering Role of NarrativeChapter 11:Framing Authorial Power: Claire Legendre and the Limits of (Auto)FictionDawn CornelioChapter 12:The Complexity of (Patriarchal) Power in Two Plays by Claire LegendreMichèle A. SchaalChapter 13:Marie Ndiaye’s En famille: A Feminist Consciousness of Intersectional Power Relations in FranceAlison MarmontChapter 14:The Architecture of Power in Recent French Care Home NarrativesSiobhán McIlvanneyIndex

Siobhán McIlvanney is Professor of French and Francophone Women’s Writing at King’s College London. Shirley Jordan is Professor Emerita of French Studies at Newcastle University.

Scrutiny of the differential distributions of power is a critical contemporary endeavour. This volume proposes a very welcome reassessment of what is at stake for women as they renegotiate power across private and public domains, and against the enduring backdrop of the French insistence on universalism. It offers a powerful platform for womens voices and for the shaping of womens narratives.

• Series Editors’ PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionShirley Jordan and Siobhán McIlvanneyPart I. Contestatory Performances of Women’s PowerChapter 1: Non-Motherhood: Power, Marginality and Un/Fulfilment in Inassouvies, nos vies (2008) by Fatou Diome.Jasmine CooperChapter 2:Female Bodily (Dis)Empowerment: Nelly Arcan’s Corps and CorpusPolly GalisChapter 3:The Power of Queering a Relationship: Liane de Pougy and Natalie Clifford BarneyRachael StockdalePart II. Francophone Empowerment Beyond the HexagoneChapter 4:Sex, Power and Violence in Théo Ananissoh’s Delikatessen (2017)Antonia WimbushChapter 5:Sexual Exploitation and Gendered Power Dynamics: Female Genital Mutilation in Adelle Barry’s ‘En attendant minuit’ (2015)Maria TomlinsonChapter 6:Re-membering Narrative Power: The Myth of Marie BashkirtsheffNoëlle Brown LivelyPart III. The Transmediatic Power of WomenChapter 7:Renegade Mothers in the Mamasphere: Exercising Maternal Power in Caroline Allard’s Les Chroniques d’une mère indigneJulie RodgersChapter 8:Feminist Fertilisation and the Power of the Menstrual Stain in Contemporary Bandes dessinéesAndrea JonssonChapter 9:‘My Hands are Made for Gold!’: Female Power, Spatial Dynamics and Genre in Houda Benyamina’s Divines (2016)Ros MurrayChapter 10:Women, Power and the Pandemic in France: Covid-19 from a Feminist PerspectiveShirley JordanPart IV: The Empowering Role of NarrativeChapter 11:Framing Authorial Power: Claire Legendre and the Limits of (Auto)FictionDawn CornelioChapter 12:The Complexity of (Patriarchal) Power in Two Plays by Claire LegendreMichèle A. SchaalChapter 13:Marie Ndiaye’s En famille: A Feminist Consciousness of Intersectional Power Relations in FranceAlison MarmontChapter 14:The Architecture of Power in Recent French Care Home NarrativesSiobhán McIlvanneyIndex