Taking up space : women at work in contemporary France / edited by Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouamer, Siham, editor.

Stojanovic, Sonja (College teacher), editor.

Series:

French and Francophone Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women employees--France.

Women employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, Wales : The University of Wales Press, [2022]

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.

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bouamer, Siham Taking Up Space

ISBN:

9781786839084

1786839083