Maggie Allison is Honorary Visiting Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Bradford. Her research and publications in gender and media in France cover journalism, the women's press, sexual harassment and the role of women in politics. She has also published, in collaboration with Sheila Perry, on the televised débats participatifs broadcast prior to the 2007 French presidential elections, focusing on representations of diversity and gender. Angela Kershaw is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on literature and culture of the interwar period and the Second World War in France. She is the author of Forgotten Engagements: Women, Literature and the Left in 1930s France (2007) and Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France (2010).
Preface: The Parcours of Women in French, UK
p. ix
Making Women Visible
p. 1
Tracking Lives: WomenÆs Biography in Perspective
p. 3
Trajectories of Two WomenÆs Libraries: A Comparative Study of the Bibliothèque Léonie La Fontaine and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand
p. 23
WomenÆs Trajectories through Public Space
p. 39
A Business Trajectory: Assessing Female Representation in Le Petit Journal, EuropeÆs First Mass Circulation Daily
p. 41
æFemme FataleÆ or æFemme PhénixÆ? The Discourse-Trajectory of 2007 Presidential Candidate Ségolène Royal
p. 59
Hello, Goodbye? WomenÆs Trajectories within the French National Assembly
p. 77
Ecrire pour me parcourir: Gisèle HalimiÆs parcours and the Role of her Autobiography
p. 97
Trajectories of Homeless Women in France
p. 113
WomenÆs Trajectories in and through Literature
p. 131
Nomadic Trajectories: Postfeminism and Contemporary WomenÆs Writing in French
p. 133
An Illusory Journey: The MermaidÆs Trajectory in Ying ChenÆs Fiction
p. 151
Du Dedans au Dehors: Trajectories of the Self in Diaries by Annie Ernaux
p. 167
Marie ChaixÆs Trajectory as a Writer: The Ever Present Past and the Inf luence of Feminism
p. 181
Feminising War Experience: Representations of the Second World War in Québécois Historical Fiction
p. 195
Reading Victor Margueritte and Léon Frapié: Motherhood, the Emancipated Woman and Female Identity
p. 211
WomenÆs Trajectories through Geographical Space
p. 227
IÆm going back where I came from: Travels in Languages and Prose in Marie EtienneÆs Sensò, la guerre and Silvia Baron-SupervielleÆs Le livre du retour
p. 229
The Hijacking of a Genre: French Female Film-makers and the Road Movie
p. 243
Ella Maillart and Laurence Deonna: Impressions of the USSR
p. 257
æFor lust of knowing what should not be knownÆ: Ella Maillart, Ethel Mannin and the Journey to Russia in the 1930s
p. 273
Notes on Contributors
p. 291
Index
p. 297
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