Parcours de femmes twenty years of women in French /

This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies and investigates the theme of trajectories in French and Francophone women's lives and writings.

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Allison, Maggie, Kershaw, Angela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.
Series:Modern French identities, v. 73
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The parcours of women in French, UK / Maggie Allison and Diana Holmes
  • Tracking lives: women's biography in perspective / Siân Reynolds
  • Trajectories of two women's libraries: a comparative study of the Bibliothèque Léonie La Fontaine and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Caroline Verdier
  • A business trajectory: assessing female representation in Le petit journal, Europe's first mass circulation daily / Jane Chapman
  • "Femme fatale" or "Femme Phénix"? The discourse-trajectory of 2007 presidential candidate Ségolène Royal / Maggie Allison
  • Hello, goodbye? Women's trajectories within the French National Assembly / Manda Green
  • Ecrire pour me parcourir: Gisèle Halimi's parcours and the role of her autobiography / Imogen Long
  • Trajectories of homeless women in France / Estelle Soudant-Depelchin
  • Nomadic trajectories: postfeminism and contemporary women's writing in French / Amaleena Damlé
  • An illusory journey: the mermaid's trajectory in Ying Chen's fiction / Gabrielle Parker
  • Du dedans au dehors: trajectories of the self in diaries by Annie Ernaux / Elise Hugueny-Léger
  • Marie Chaix's trajectory as a writer: the ever present past and the influence of feminism / Nicole Thatcher
  • Feminising war experience: representations of the second World War in Québécois historical fiction / Florence Tilch
  • Reading Victor Margueritte and Léon Frapié: motherhood, the emancipated woman and female identity / Jurate Kaminskas
  • I'm going back where I came from: travels in language and prose in Marie Etienne's Sensò, la guerre and Silvia Baron-Supervielle's Le livre du retour / Dawn M. Cornelio
  • The hijacking of a genre: French female film-makers and the road movie / Michelle Royer
  • Ella Maillart and Laurence Deonna: impressions of the USSR / Joy Charnley
  • "For lust of knowing what should not be known": Ella Maillart, Ethel Mannin and the journey to Russia in the 1930s / Angela Kershaw.