| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
French and francophone studies |
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French and francophone studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. Behind Closed Doors: Work and Intimate Spaces -- Chapter 1: A Transmedial and Transtemporal Reading of Labour on the Run in Albertine Sarrazin's L'Astragale -- Chapter 2: Good Housekeeping: Domestic Noir and Domestic Work in Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce -- Chapter 3: A Woman's Huis clos: Exhausted Feminism in Paule Constant's Confidence pour confidence -- Chapter 4: A Life's Work: Accounting for Birth in Naissances |
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Chapter 5: Sexual Identity as Work in Mireille Best's Il n'y a pas d'hommes au paradis -- Chapter 6: Psychoanalytical Work in Chahdortt Djavann's Je ne suis pas celle que je suis -- Part II. Revolving Doors: Liminal and Precarious Spaces -- Chapter 7: 'Be proud of all the Fatimas': From Alienated Labour to Poetic Consciousness in Philippe Faucon's Fatima -- Chapter 8: Chimerical Cashiers: Exposure, Ableism and the Foreign Body in Marie-Hélène Lafon's Gordana and Nos vies -- Chapter 9: Subterranean Space and Subjugation: 'Being Below' in Delphine de Vigan's Les Heures souterraines |
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Chapter 10: In Concrete Terms: Gendering Labour in Anne Garréta's Dans l'béton -- Chapter 11: Woman at Sea? Space and Work in Catherine Poulain's Le grand marin -- Chapter 12: From Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi's Professional Transition -- Part III. From Opening a Few Doors to Blowing the Doors Off -- Chapter 13: Women's bénévolat militant at the Beginning of the MLF -- Chapter 14: Women Working: Women Rebelling -- Female Community and Gender Relations in Ah! Nana -- Chapter 15: 'Putting Us Back in Our Place': #MeToo, Women and the Literary/Cultural Establishment |
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Chapter 16: Breaking Down Barriers and Advocating for Change in the French Film Industry: The Career and Activism of Actress Aïssa Maïga -- Chapter 17: Unapologetically Visible? Representing and Reassessing Contemporary French Womanhood in Dix Pour Cent -- Chapter 18: Tracées to Black Excellence? Black Women at Work in Mariannes Noires by Mame-Fatou Niang and Kaytie Nielsen -- Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
The contributors to Taking Up Space focus on representations of women's labour in cultural production (literature, cinema and television, journalism, bande dessinée). The chapters draw on a wide range of work experiences, from salaried work in academic, artistic, corporate and working-class worlds to unpaid (reproductive, domestic) labour, illegal activities and activism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women employees -- France
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Women employees
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bouamer, Siham, editor
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Stojanovic, Sonja, editor
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| ISBN |
1786839083 |
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9781786839084 |
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9781786839091 |
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1786839091 |
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