Table of Contents:
  • Resisting romance : Simone de Beauvoir : 'The woman destroyed' and the romance script / Elizabeth Fallaize
  • Realism, fantasy and feminist meaning : the fiction of Christiane Rochefort / Diana Holmes
  • Class, sexuality and subjectivity in Annie Ernaux's Les Armoires vides / Loraine Day
  • The politics of identity in Elise ou la vraie vie / Margaret Atack
  • Body and culture : the representation of sexual, racial and class differences in Lachmet's Le Cow-boy / Judith Still
  • Marguerite and the mountain / Trista Selous
  • Genevieve Serreau : theatre of fiction / Ian Fairley
  • Michele Perrein : the parenthesis as metaphor of the female condition / Gabrielle Parker.
  • 'Bliss was it in that dawn ... ' : contemporary women's writing in France and the Editions des femmes / Nicole Ward Jouve
  • Figuring circulation : Claude Levi-Strauss and Monique Wittig / Namascar Shaktini
  • Helene Cixous's Dedans : the father makes an exit / Mairead Hanrahan
  • Reading for pleasure : Marie Cardinal's Les Mots pour le dire and the text as (re)play of Oedipal configurations / Phil Powrie
  • Reading as a daughter : Chantal Chawaf revisited / Valerie Hannagan.