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1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
French and francophone studies
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French and francophone studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Front Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Images of the Flâneuse: Mediatic Representations of Women's Relationship to the City; 1. A City for Young Ladies: The Parisian Flâneuse of the Journal des Demoiselles; 2. Unfolding the Domestic Interior: Women, Newspapers and the Nineteenth-Century City; 3. Agnès Varda in Paris: The Urban Gaze of the Female Film-makerin Three Short Films; 4. Imagining on the Outskirts of the City: Duras's Le Camion and the marcheuse |
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Part II: From the Periphery to the Centre: Marginalised Re-inscriptions of the Urban5. Morphologies of Becoming: Dehumanisation and Dandyism in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin; 6. Towards a Globalised Banlieue? Resilience through Literature in Three Narratives of the 'Ultraperiphery'; 7. Marriage, Pregnancy and the City in Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays; 8. Viewing the Algerian Cityscape in Nina Bouraoui's La Voyeuse interdite and Leïla Sebbar's 'La Jeune Fille au balcon'; Part III: Gendered Spaces, Gendered Places: The Feminisation of the City Environment |
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9. 'For Their Trouble and Labour':1 Women's Work Reconsidered in Late Medieval Amiens10. City, War and Politicisation in Journal à quatre mains by Benoîte and Flora Groult; 11. C'est l'endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, Gender and Belonging in Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Ève de ses décombres; 12. Gendered Spaces of Ageing: The Liberations and Limitations of Urban Space in Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston; Index; Back Cover |
Summary |
An exciting, interdisciplinary collection of essays examining women's relationship to the city, which radically challenges many of the accepted commonplaces surrounding women's roles and positions within an urban space typically characterised as masculine. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women and literature -- France -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature. |
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France. |
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Feminism and literature -- France -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature. |
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French literature -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
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Cities and towns in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature. |
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Public spaces in literature.
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Public spaces in literature. |
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Women in popular culture -- France.
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Women in popular culture. |
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Urban women -- France.
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Urban women. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
McIlvanney, Siobhán, editor.
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Ni Cheallaigh, Gillian, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Women and the city in French literature and culture. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019] 1786834324 (OCoLC)1061090847 |
ISBN |
9781786834331 (electronic book) |
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1786834332 (electronic book) |
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9781786834348 (ePub ebook) |
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1786834340 |
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9781786834355 (Mobipocket ebook) |
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1786834359 (Mobipocket ebook) |
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1786834324 |
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9781786834324 |
Standard No. |
10.1234/b10947 |