Parcours de femmes [electronic resource] : twenty years of women in French / Maggie Allison and Angela Kershaw (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: The parcours of women in French, UK / Maggie Allison and Diana Holmes -- Tracking lives: women's biography in perspective / Siân Reynolds -- Trajectories of two women's libraries: a comparative study of the Bibliothèque Léonie La Fontaine and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand / Caroline Verdier -- A business trajectory: assessing female representation in Le petit journal, Europe's first mass circulation daily / Jane Chapman -- "Femme fatale" or "Femme Phénix"? The discourse-trajectory of 2007 presidential candidate Ségolène Royal / Maggie Allison -- Hello, goodbye? Women's trajectories within the French National Assembly / Manda Green -- Ecrire pour me parcourir: Gisèle Halimi's parcours and the role of her autobiography / Imogen Long -- Trajectories of homeless women in France / Estelle Soudant-Depelchin -- Nomadic trajectories: postfeminism and contemporary women's writing in French / Amaleena Damlé -- An illusory journey: the mermaid's trajectory in Ying Chen's fiction / Gabrielle Parker -- Du dedans au dehors: trajectories of the self in diaries by Annie Ernaux / Elise Hugueny-Léger -- Marie Chaix's trajectory as a writer: the ever present past and the influence of feminism / Nicole Thatcher -- Feminising war experience: representations of the second World War in Québécois historical fiction / Florence Tilch -- Reading Victor Margueritte and Léon Frapié: motherhood, the emancipated woman and female identity / Jurate Kaminskas -- I'm going back where I came from: travels in language and prose in Marie Etienne's Sensò, la guerre and Silvia Baron-Supervielle's Le livre du retour / Dawn M. Cornelio -- The hijacking of a genre: French female film-makers and the road movie / Michelle Royer -- Ella Maillart and Laurence Deonna: impressions of the USSR / Joy Charnley -- "For lust of knowing what should not be known": Ella Maillart, Ethel Mannin and the journey to Russia in the 1930s / Angela Kershaw.

This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies and investigates the theme of trajectories in French and Francophone women's lives and writings.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.