Women and Power in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures and Societies

AvShirley Jordan,Siobhán McIlvanney

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The women represented in this volume as both authors and protagonists exert power by resisting the social paradigms that govern how they ‘should’ behave – by thwarting expectations of typical ‘feminine’ conduct (whether in relation to female corporeality and sexuality) or by their (non)adherence to the institutions of marriage and motherhood. However, they also claim power by espousing more conventionally ‘feminine’ roles, recuperating and revaluing those that entail caring and nurturing. They emphasise, in ways consistent with the growing body of feminist work on care relations, the positive, life-affirming potential that such roles embody. This volume focuses on women who, through smaller and larger acts of empowerment, seek to exert influence over their life choices. Its diverse contributions acknowledge the contextual, historical and intersectional specificities governing every woman’s power to choose her own present and future, and the important role played by even incremental changes in contributing to a greater sense of personal independence and self-knowledge, without which there can be no meaningful political change.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-15
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781837723676
Förlag:University of Wales Press
Serie:French and Francophone Studies

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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