Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni is Associate Professor at Paris 8 University—Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France.Valérie Baisnee-Keay is Associate Professor at Université Paris Saclay, France.Corinne Bigot is Associate Professor at Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, France.Stephanie Genty was Associate Professor at the Université Paris Saclay, France, and now retired.Nathalie Saudo-Welby is Professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France.The co-editors are part of an inter-university research group called FAAAM and have worked on two previous volumes: Text and Image in Women’s Life Writing (2021) and Women’s Life Writing and the Practice of Reading (2018).

• .- 1 Introduction (Valérie Baisnée-Keay, co-editor, Université Paris Saclay).- Part I: Personal and Political Activism.- 2 Love, Gender and Political Activism: Emma Goldman and Rose Pesotta (Maria Tamboukou, University of East London).- 3 Preserving Intimate Relationships on Nishnaabeg Territory: Decolonial Love, Women and Radical Resistance in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Stories and Songs (Corinne Bigot, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).- 4 “Caught in the Hinge of a Slowly Opening Door?” Colonial Legacy and Gender Inequality in Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings (Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Université Paris Saclay).- 5 Glimpses into the Abyss (1906): Mary Higgs’s Personal Sociology (Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Université de Picardie Jules Verne).- Part II: Threats to Intimacy.- 6 The Intimate Politics of Empire: Child Removal and Indigenous Women’s Writing (Christina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth University).- 7 The Intimate Politics of Rape Narratives in the works of Arundhati Roy and Meena Kandasamy (Aurore Montheil, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).- 8 “I wanted to see if no still meant somethin’” or Female and Cherokee Resilience in Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne).- 9 Intimacy and Poverty in Kerry Hudson's Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns (2019) (Martina Domines, University of Zagreb).- 10 The Hospital as Scene of Childbirth in 20th and 21st-century Literature (Alice Braun, Université Paris Nanterre).- Part III: Redefining Intimate Spaces.- 11 The Black Seamstress in the Attic: Intimacy as Pleasure and Peril in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel (Valentina Rapetti, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy).- 12 “Heaven” as Female Heterotopia in Elizabeth Phelps’s The Gates Ajar (Mariana Teixera Marquez Pujol, Université Toulouse Capitole).- 13 Out of The Women’s Room: Marilyn French’s Iconography of Emotional Restraint (Stephanie Genty, Université Paris Saclay).- Part IV: Navigating the Paradoxes of Intimacy.- 14 Lang Leav: Navigating the Tensions of Intimacy as an “Instapoet-ess” (Floriane Joseph, Université de Lille).- 15 Lonely Hunters: Intimacy Between (Queer) Women in My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Ana Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal).- 16 “Meeting between the Dry Hours”: Lesbian Intimacies and Queer Timelessness in Contemporary Poetry (Héloïse Thomas, independent scholar).- 17 Narrative Intimacy and Story Sharing in Brenda Lin’s Memoir Wealth Ribbon (Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis).