Cherchez la femme

Women and Values in the Francophone World
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4438-2933-5
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten

Throughout history, the most fundamental values at the basis of societal organization and culture were determined and sanctified almost exclusively by men—including the values traditionally associated with women, such as corporeal beauty, purity, motherhood, or empathy. However, from ancient times, and increasingly toward the end of the second millennium, women have succeeded in finding ways to overcome such limits and have made their contributions to the revision of values and to the establishment of new ones.

Cherchez la femme offers a selection of essays inquiring into the nature of aesthetic, linguistic, cultural, and social values created, informed, or reformed by women in the French-speaking world, as well as studies on how the discourse of (male) power used female figures to strengthen its own position. With topics ranging in time from Semiramis’s ancient legend to today, and in space from Québec to Haiti, metropolitan France, and New Caledonia, the volume shares the richness and fruitfulness of the female perspective in art, culture, theory, and political action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fülöp, Erika

Angelo, Adrienne

Über Autor(innen)

Erika Fülöp, PhD, is a freelance translator and literary critic. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary self-reflexive fiction and cultural theory. She has published articles on Proust and a number of contemporary novelists. Her monograph Proust, the One, and the Many is forthcoming with Legenda.

Adrienne Angelo, PhD, Assistant Professor of French at Auburn University, USA, specializes in contemporary women’s writing in France and the Francophone world. Her publications include The Fourth Generation of French Feminist Writers (1985–2010) (Edwin Mellen, 2009) and articles on French filmmakers Catherine Breillat and François Ozon and writers Catherine Millet and Nina Bouraoui.