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Frank French Feminisms - Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan (Paperback, New edition): Polly... Frank French Feminisms - Sex, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Ernaux, Huston and Arcan (Paperback, New edition)
Polly Galis
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"An in-depth look at three important French-language women writers who tackle gender stereotypes, desire, the body, language and empowerment, this richly documented study is rigorous, thorough, illuminating and highly readable, with broader implications for contemporary feminism and women's writing within and beyond France and Quebec. A major contribution." (Lori Saint-Martin, Professor of Literary Studies, University of Quebec in Montreal) This book is the first comparative study of the work of Francophone authors Annie Ernaux (France), Nancy Huston (Alberta and France) and Nelly Arcan (Quebec) and explores their representation of sex, sexuality and the body from a feminist perspective. In particular, this study examines their narrative treatment of dominant sexual discourses, sexual difference and diverse feminine bodily experience. In so doing, this book reveals these writers' distinctive contribution to contemporary women's writing in French and different feminisms, which takes the form of a unique, "frank" French feminism. This frank French feminist approach, this book shows, is concerned with tackling gender inequality, sexism and misogyny, but also recognises the difficulties involved in feminist action, and acknowledges that adherence to allegedly oppressive gender stereotypes can actually prove enjoyable and empowering for women. This book examines the authors' earliest to latest publications and a broad range of genres and media, including fictional and autofictional novels, autobiographies, critical essays, photo-texts, diaries, journals, illustrated oeuvres, media addresses and newspaper articles. This book project was the Winner of the 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Contemporary Women's Writing in French.

Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture (Paperback, New edition): Polly Galis, Antonia Wimbush, Maria Tomlinson Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture (Paperback, New edition)
Polly Galis, Antonia Wimbush, Maria Tomlinson
R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture questions how a wide selection of restrictive norms come to bear on the body, through a close analysis of a range of texts, media and genres originating from across the francophone world and spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay troubles hegemonic, monolithic perceptions and portrayals of racial, class, gender, sexual and/or national identity, rethinking bodily norms as portrayed in literature, film, theatre and digital media specifically from a queer and querying perspective. The volume thus takes "queer(y)ing" as its guiding methodology, an approach to culture and society which examines, questions and challenges normativity in all of its guises. The term "queer(y)ing" retains the celebratory tone of the term "queer" but avoids appropriating the identity of the LGBTQ+ community, a group which remains marginalized to this day. The publication reveals that evaluating the bodily norms depicted in francophone culture through a queer and querying lens allows us to fragment often oppressive and restrictive norms, and ultimately transform them.

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