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Title Women and the city in French literature and culture : reconfiguring the feminine in the urban environment / edited by Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh.

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series French and francophone studies
French and francophone studies.
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
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
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.
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Subject Women and literature -- France -- History and criticism.
Women and literature.
France.
Feminism and literature -- France -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature.
French literature -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Women in popular culture -- France.
Women in popular culture.
Urban women -- France.
Urban women.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author McIlvanney, Siobhán, editor.
Ni Cheallaigh, Gillian, editor.
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)
1786834332 (electronic book)
9781786834348 (ePub ebook)
1786834340
9781786834355 (Mobipocket ebook)
1786834359 (Mobipocket ebook)
1786834324
9781786834324
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