Women and the City in French Literature and Culture
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- ISBN 9781786834324
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2019
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idees recues surrounding women's ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French, and European, literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flaneur a quintessentially male phenomenon or can there exist a true flaneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading - both individually and collectively - in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women's studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.
Siobhan McIlvanney is Reader in French and Francophone Women's Writing at King's College London. Gillian Ni Cheallaigh is a former Lecturer in French and Francophone Women's Writing at King's College London, and currently an independent researcher.
