A01=Alison Fell
Alison S. Fell
annie
Annie Ernaux
Au Foyer
Author_Alison Fell
beauvoir
Beauvoir's Writings
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Category=JBSF1
Christine Angot
discourses
Discursive Practices
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ernaux
female
Female Identity
feminist historiography
femme
foyer
French Education System
French feminist theory
gendered subjectivity
identity
Je Ne
La Femme
Le Moi
literary maternal analysis
Maternal Behaviour
Maternal Narrative
MLF
Mother Daughter Bond
Mother Daughter Relationship
Mother's Daughters
Mother's Existence
mother-daughter dynamics in French writing
motherhood
Motherhood Discourses
Patriarchal Constructions
pre-Oedipal Mother Daughter Relationship
Pronatalist Discourses
Qui
reproductive politics
simone
Twentieth Century France
twentieth-century French literature
Une Femme
Une Mort
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755733
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The concept of motherhood emerges strongly in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux, whose work is examined here in the light of current debates about women's reproductive function and the longstanding glorification of the mere au foyer in France, driven by fear of a falling population. In this interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century French women's writing, Fell uncovers tensions at the heart of the literary critique. She shows these authors challenging the patriarchal view of motherhood as the sole justification for a woman's existence while at the same time confronting the conflict inherent in their relationship with their own mothers. A survey of theoretical and historical material demonstrates vividly that the changing concept of motherhood remains a problematic and highly contentious issue for French feminists, whether writing in 1940 or 1999.
