French Feminisms 1975 and After: New Readings, New Texts
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- UOA26-298
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- ISBN
- 9783034322096
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Additional information
- This output consists of the following elements: the Introduction, Conclusion, and Atack’s own chapter. This is the first of the two volumes to have been developed from the 2015 Women in French conference, which was organised by the four co-editors. Atack took the lead on this volume (Holmes led on the second volume, Making Waves) from the initial proposal to the publisher onwards, and worked on its overall coherence and research focus by writing the Introduction and Conclusion (circulated to her co-editors for comment), and working with the contributors as their chapters evolved. Taking its inspiration from Les Femmes s’entêtent and its profusion of multiple approaches – literary, sociological, theoretical, poetic, empirical – to constructing feminist positions on gender and women’s experience, the conference explored French feminism and its legacies 1975-2015 across French society, literature and culture. This volume focused on literary and theoretical writings, with new readings of major figures of the 1970s and studies of recent writers that connect their work to the trajectories of feminist analysis and imaginative writing. The Introduction and Conclusion establish the research context and research questions of the volume by exploring the key themes and epistemologies of the 1970s and their subsequent developments both theoretically and in women’s writing more generally, in order to argue that across the different theoretical analyses, and particularly the often starkly opposed materialist feminism and differentialist feminism, the volume as a whole demonstrates that the theory and practice of the literary as a site of political cultural practice remains a constant and common preoccupation. The work of the Introduction and Conclusion, and Atack’s chapter on Valentine Goby, are therefore integral components of the argument and research programme of the volume.
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