This volume is based on papers given at the biennial Women in French conference held in Leeds in May 2011. Drawing on a range of interconnecting disciplines and forms of cultural production, it explores the relationship between French and Francophone women and the material world. Bringing together researchers from the United Kingdom, France and other Francophone countries, the book reflects the engagement of women researchers with contemporary debates.
The first section focuses on the female body, examining dance and the performing arts but also the material objectification suffered by...

This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies. Based on papers delivered at the group s tenth biennial conference in Leeds, which was entitled Le parcours, the volume investigates the theme of trajectories in French and Francophone women s lives and writings.
The book begins with consideration of the ways in which traces of women s lives, experiences and texts are conserved in archives and communicated to new generations of readers through the practice of women s biography. It then addresses...