Privacy, Publicity, Pornography: Restif de la Bretonne's Ingénue Saxancour, ou La Femme séparée (original) (raw)

French Feminist Literature Yesterday and Today

This course explores feminist literary voices in France throughout the ages. It discusses the theory that the power of feminist writing lies in its ability to translate maledominant language into a language of one's own. Studies lifestyles, family norms, political representation, social movements, as well as the relation to the body.

Women's memoirs in early nineteenth century France

1998

Although historians have acknowledged the importance of gender as a factor in the social and political life of post-revolutionary France, and bibliographical studies have revealed that vast quantities of memoirs were composed during the half century after the outbreak of the Revolution, the lives of women between the late 1790s and the 1830s, and the works in which they wrote about their lives and about the age in which they lived, have hitherto attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and historians. Previous research, moreover, has concentrated on women as writers of poetry and fiction, on the portrayal of women in novels, and on their position in society as it was defined by legislators, doctors, philosophers and the authors of manuals on female education and 'Woman' and 'the Artist'. This approach reveals the inadequacy of many of the existing editions of women's memoirs and opens the way to further research into this field by demonstrating the richness of memoirs as literature and as historical testimony.

Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature

2016

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Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions

IT 'S ONLY FIT TING that in a book that tracks influences, I acknowledge my own. At Williams, Brian Martin and Kashia Pieprzak opened up my horizon of possibility, making me want to become a professor of French (and a person) like them. At Yale, Alice Kaplan taught me to think for myself, and her gift of and with language continues to inspire. Thank you, from one A. K. to another. Margaret Homans was an early believer in my work and her interest and engagement were invaluable. I'm grateful that Howard Bloch and Maurice Samuels have continued to support and encourage my work throughout the years. Agnès Bolton sustained me through more crises of faith than I can count. The anagram Ange(s) Bolton is a fitting one. At Duke, the Contemporary Novel Group, the Triangle French History and Culture Seminar, Nancy Armstrong, Michèle Longino, Helen Solterer, and Kate Costello were thoughtful interlocutors indispensable to the crucial work of reframing the project and discovering what shape it was supposed to take. Anne Garréta pushed me to write freely without looking to her for approval or permission. Rey Chow's quick laughter and careful listening and reading modeled an intellectual engagement and generosity to which I aspire. Robyn Wiegman showed me how important the psychic dimension of writing is, and viii • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Armstrong, How Novels Think. 2. See hooks, Feminist Theory, which speaks powerfully to the need for feminism to contest more than sexism and misogyny. 3. See Duchen, Feminism in France; Picq, Libération des femmes; Collectif, "MLF. " 10. Sarraute, "Prière d'insérer" to "disent les imbéciles." 11. Benmussa and Sarraute, Entretiens avec Nathalie Sarraute, 184.