Women in contemporary France

238 Pages·2000·0.71 MB·English

by  Abigail Gregory

Women in Contemporary France
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Women in Contemporary France
Edited by
Abigail Gregory and Ursula Tidd
Oxford•New York
First published in 2000 by
Berg
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© Abigail Gregory and Ursula Tidd 2000
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ISBN 1859733530(Cloth)
ISBN 1 85973 358 1 (Paper)
Typeset by JS Typesetting, Wellingborough, Northants.
Printed in the United Kingdom by WBC Book Manufacturers, Bridgend,
Mid Glamorgan.
Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction
Abigail Gregory and Ursula Tidd 1
1 Women in Paid Work
Abigail Gregory 21
2 Women’s Unpaid Work and Leisure
Jan Windebank 47
3 Women and the Media
Maggie Allison 65
4 Women and Politics
Máire Fedelma Cross 89
5 Women and Language
Kate Beeching 113
6 Women’s Writing
Gill Rye 133
7 Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Women
Jane Freedman 153
8 Visible Subjects: Lesbians in Contemporary France
Ursula Tidd 171
9 Women in Rural France
Marion Demossier 191
Conclusion 213
Index 219
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Notes on Contributors
Maggie Allison is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of
Bradford. Her research is in media analysis with particular emphasis on
the representation of women in the political arena in Britain and France.
She has co-edited two volumes recently: In/visibility: Gender and Repre-
sentation in a European Context (with R. Cleminson), special issue of
Interface: Bradford Studies in Language, Culture and Society, vol. 3
(1998) and Forty Years of the Fifth French Republic: Actions, Dialogues
and Discourses (with O. Heathcote) (Bern: Peter Lang, 1999). Her chapter
on comparative representations of women politicians during the French
and British elections of 1997 has appeared in O. Krakovitch and G. Sellier
(eds) Représentations des femmes de pouvoir: mythes et fantasmes (Paris:
L’Harmattan, 2000).
Kate Beeching is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and French at the
Faculty of Languages and European Studies, University of the West of
England, Bristol. She is preparing her Ph.D. on ‘Parenthetical Remarks
in Women’s and Men’s Speech in Contemporary French’ at the University
of Surrey/Université de Paris X-Nanterre and has research interests in
sociolinguistics and the spoken language. Recent publications include
‘The social significance of gender-linked features of French’ in Women
in French Studies, 7 (September 1999) and ‘Le rôle de la particule pragma-
tique “enfin” dans le discours des hommes et des femmes’ in Armstrong,
N., Bauvois, C. and Beeching, K., Femmes et français (Paris: L’Harmattan,
2000).
Máire Fedelma Cross is Head of French at the University of Sheffield,
where she teaches aspects of contemporary French politics and history
at postgraduate and undergraduate level. She has co-authored The Feminism
of Flora Tristan (Berg, 1992) and Early French Feminisms 1830–1940
(Elgar, 1996). She contributes regularly to the journals Modern and
Contemporary France, European History Quarterly, French Studies,
and is a member of the Editorial Board of Modern and Contemporary
France.
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Notes on Contributors
Marion Demossier is a Lecturer in French and European Studies at the
University of Bath. Her research interests are in social anthropology and
rural studies. Her publications include Vignerons, propriétaires et négociants
en Bourgogne (Dié, 1994) and Homme et vin, une anthropologie du
vignoble bourguignon (Presses Universitaires de Dijon, 1998).
Jane Freedman has a doctorat de sociologie politique from the Université
de Paris VII. She is Lecturer in French in the Department of Modern
Languages at the University of Southampton. She has published Femmes
politiques: mythes et symboles (L’Harmattan, 1997) and is the joint editor
(with Carrie Tarr) of Women, Immigration and Identities in France (Berg,
2000).
Abigail Gregory is Lecturer in French at the University of Salford, where
she offers a Final Year Undergraduate module on Women in the Labour
Force in France. She is the co-author (with Jan Windebank) of Women
and Work in France and Britain (Macmillan, 2000). She has published
chapters in Jones, B. and Cressey, P (eds) Work and Employment in
European Society: Integration and Convergence (Routledge, 1995) and
(with J. O’Reilly) in Crompton, R., Gallie, D. and Purcell, K. (eds)
Changing Forms of Employment: Organisations, Skills and Gender
(Routledge, 1996). She has also published articles in Work, Employment
and Society, Gender, Work and Organisation, Formation Emploi and the
Revue Française des affaires sociales.
Gill Rye is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in French at Roehampton
Institute, London and a College Teacher of contemporary French literature
at University College, London. Her most recent publications include ‘Time
for Change: Re(con)figuring Maternity in Contemporary French Literature
(Baroche, Cixous, Constant, Redonnet)’, Paragraph 19:3 (1998) and
‘Textual Genealogies: The Legacy of Mme de Meurteuil. Reading Rela-
tions in Christiane Baroche’s L’Hiver de beauté’, French Forum, 24
(January 1999).
Ursula Tidd is Lecturer in French in the School of Languages and an
Associate Director of the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI) at
the University of Salford. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Gender
and Testimony (Cambridge University Press, 1999). She has published
chapters in Langford, R. and West, R. (eds) Marginal Forms, Marginal
Voices: Diaries in European Literature (Rodopi Press, 1999) and in
Horner, A. and Keane, A. (eds) Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality,
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Notes on Contributors
Corporeality (Manchester University Press, 2000), as well as articles on
Beauvoir’s writing in Women in French Studies, Simone de Beauvoir
Studies, New Readings and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
Jan Windebank is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University
of Sheffield. Her principal publications include The Informal Economy
in France (Avebury, 1991), (with C.C. Williams) Informal Employment
in the Advanced Economies (Routledge, 1998), (with A.Gregory) Women
and Work in France and Britain (Macmillan, 2000) as well as several
articles on domestic labour and childcare in France and Britain in Women’s
Studies International Forum, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, Journal
of European Social Policy and Journal of Social Policy.
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