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French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second
Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year
for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of
the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from
the perspective of both preceding and subsequent 'waves' of
feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their
strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures
have come into play. Edited and written by an international group
of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a
vital moment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the
relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist
politics and culture.
French feminism was central to the theory and culture of Second
Wave feminism as an international movement, and 1975 was a key year
for the women's movement in France. Through a critical review of
the politics, activism and cultural creativity of that moment, from
the perspective of both preceding and subsequent 'waves' of
feminism, this book evaluates the legacies of 1975, and their
strengths and limitations as new questions and new conjunctures
have come into play. Edited and written by an international group
of feminist scholars, it offers both a critical re-evaluation of a
vital moment in women's cultural history, and a new analysis of the
relationship between second wave agendas and contemporary feminist
politics and culture.
The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major
focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes
controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's
Suite francaise and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both
rapidly translated into English, offer just two examples of this
significant phenomenon. Gathering within one volume studies of
genres, visual cultures, chronology, narrative theory, and a wealth
of narratives in fiction and film, Framing Narratives of the Second
World War and Occupation in France 1939-2009 brings together an
internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an
authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation
narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and
films to be studied and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of
the work in this area. Edited by two leading specialists, the book
includes contributions by William Cloonan, Richard J Golsan, Leah
Hewitt, Colin Nettelbeck, and Gisele Sapiro.
The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal
point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes
controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's
Suite francaise and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both
rapidly translated into English, offer just two examples of this
significant phenomenon. Gathering within one volume studies of
genres, visual cultures, chronology, narrative theory, and a wealth
of narratives in fiction and film, Framing narratives of the Second
World War and occupation in France 1939-2009 brings together an
internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an
authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation
narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and
films to be studied and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of
the work in this area. Now available in paperback, the book
includes contributions by William Cloonan, Richard J Golsan, Leah
Hewitt, Colin Nettelbeck and Gisele Sapiro -- .
This volume explores contemporary French women's writing through
the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the
writings of the 1970s that came to be known as "French feminism".
With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a
sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and
textuality, Helene Cixous and others became internationally
recognised for their work, at a time when the women's movement was
also a driving force for social change. Taking its cue from Les
Femmes s'entetent, a multi-authored analysis of the situation of
women and a celebration of women's creativity, this collection
offers new readings of Monique Wittig, Emma Santos and Helene
Cixous, followed by essays on Nina Bouraoui, Michele Perrein and
Ying Chen, Marguerite Duras and Mireille Best, and Valentine Goby.
A contextualising introduction establishes the theoretical and
cultural framework of the volume with a critical re-evaluation of
this key moment in the history of feminist thought and women's
writing, pursuing its various legacies and examining the ways
theoretical and empirical developments in queer studies,
postcolonial studies and postmodernist philosophies have extended,
inflected and challenged feminist work.
May 1968 and its aftermath constitute a watershed in contemporary French history. France was brought to a standstill as over 10 million went on strike, factories and campuses were occupied, and pitched battles were fought on the streets of Paris between riot police and students. Its roots were many and varied, its consequences equally diverse, but the slogans and images of May - utopia and spectacle, pure politics and pure play - gained mythic status as founding texts of a new cultural politics. This is the first book-length study of May 68 in French fiction and film. Eight texts, including works by Beauvoir, Cardinal, Godard, and Kristeva, are chosen to present major features of May and its aftermath, and to highlight the importance of language, image, and spectacle in the cultural and intellectual history of an extraordinary event.
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