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(in US dollars)  Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-86)
French philosopher
 1 other title  Honoré de Balzac
(1799-1850)
French novelist
3 other titles  Georges Simenon
(1903-89)
Belgian novelist
1 other title  Gender and sexuality
28 other titles | Legenda: Oxford, 2012
£45.00 ($89.50 US) Hardback 162pp
ISBN: 978-1-907975-30-1
Women, Genre and Circumstance brings together a series of challenging essays which explore the complex intersections of feminism, narrative and genre. Drawing on a wide range of 19th and 20th century texts – novels, short stories and films – they interrogate the relationship between women’s situation and writing practice, and representations of history, memory, love, old age; they pursue questions of narrative form and its meanings, particularly the distinctive features of the short story. The politics of feminist criticism and careful attention to the operations of narrative combine in a sustained exploration of the aesthetics and ethics of fictional practices, and their role in the negotiation of gender and circumstance. The essays were written as tributes to the leading feminist scholar Elizabeth Fallaize. With the contributions: Margaret Atack — Elizabeth Fallaize: French Scholar
Toril Moi — ‘To make them other, and face them’: Literature, Philosophy and ‘La Femme rompue’
Michèle Le Doeuff — Simone de Beauvoir and the Discovery of International Life
Suzanne Dow — Beauvoir and Love
Ursula Tidd — Simone de Beauvoir and the Uses of Memory
Diana Knight — Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman
Colin Davis — Being Human: Georges Simenon’s ‘L’Homme dans la rue’
Alison Finch — The ‘Stab’ of Short-Story Endings
Judith Still — Renée Vivien’s ‘La Dame à la louve’ and the Freedom to Choose
Gill Rye — New Representations and Politics of Procreation in Contemporary Women’s Writing in France
Diana Holmes — Dealing with What is Dealt: Feminists and Ageing
Elizabeth Fallaize — Women’s Time: Simone de Beauvoir and the Independent Woman Reviews:
- ‘Like the woman to whom it pays tribute, and whose haunting gaze looks out at us from its cover, this volume of essays combines intellectual rigour with humanity, serious purpose with humour, depth of insight with lightness of touch.’ — Julia Waters, Modern and Contemporary France 20.4 (November 2012), 505-06
- ‘A powerful and moving reminder of the lineaments and achievements of [Elizabeth Fallaize’s] scholarly work. Equally, as critical explorations of a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative artefacts and practices, [these essays] are a pleasure to read, combining to create a collection that is an academic delight and would certainly have delighted the woman to whom it is dedicated.’ — Alex Hughes, French Studies 67.2 (April 2013), 294-95
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