{"product_id":"plaisirs-de-femmes-women-pleasure-and-transgression-in-french-literature-and-culture-9781788743839","title":"«Plaisirs de femmes»: Women, Pleasure and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminist approaches to questions of women, pleasure and transgression have generally been premised on the assumption that women’s pleasures are typically constrained – if not ignored, marginalized or forbidden – in patriarchal cultures. The naming, foregrounding and pursuit of women’s pleasures can therefore be deemed potentially transgressive and linked to women’s emancipation in other realms. The essays in this volume draw on a range of materials, from travel writing and the novel to film and stand-up comedy, addressing the specificity of French and Francophone approaches to women, pleasure and transgression across a range of historical contexts. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume is divided into three sections: intellectual and creative pleasures; normative pleasures, that is, pleasures conforming to women’s conventionally expected roles and status as well as to accepted views regarding race, national identity and sexuality; and perverse pleasures, that is, pleasures transgressive in their tendency to reject authority and norms, and often controversial in their «excessive» appetite for violence, sex, alcohol or food. In each case, questions are raised about how we approach such pleasures as feminist researchers, motivated in part by a desire to counter the notion of feminism and feminist research as something «dour» or joyless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS: Chantal Chawaf: Écrivaine récalcitrante: entretien avec Maggie Allison – Kate Bonin: Growing up Camille: Gusto and Disgust in Mireille Best’s \u003ci\u003eCamille en octobre \u003c\/i\u003e(1988) – Rebecca J. Deroo: Pleasure, Pain and Subversion in Agnès Varda’s \u003ci\u003eL’Opéra Mouffe \u003c\/i\u003e[\u003ci\u003eDiary of a Pregnant Woman\u003c\/i\u003e] (1958) – Nelly Quemener: Une femme non respectable: de l’humour de Blanche Gardin aux ressorts de sa célébration – James Illingworth: Joséphine Bowes (1825–1874), Shopaholic or Patroness of the Arts? – Gabrielle Parker: Women and Pleasure in the Work of Madeleine Bourdouxhe – Isha Pearce: «Le Plaisir tout particulier»: The Troubling Pleasures of Leisure and Labour in Marie NDiaye’s \u003ci\u003eEn famille \u003c\/i\u003e(1990) and \u003ci\u003eLadivine \u003c\/i\u003e(2013) – Elliot Evans: \u003ci\u003eLiberté sexuelle\u003c\/i\u003e: Pleasure and Identity in Catherine Millet’s \u003ci\u003eLa Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) – Maria Tomlinson: Subverting Patriarchal Norms(?): Women, Pleasure and the Menopause in Michèle Sarde’s \u003ci\u003eConstance et la cinquantaine \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) – Diana Holmes: \u003ci\u003ePlaisir de lire\u003c\/i\u003e: Women Readers and the Popular Bestsellers of Guillaume Musso – Dúnlaith Bird: \u003ci\u003eFilles de joie, filles sans voix\u003c\/i\u003e: Representing the \u003ci\u003eVagabonde \u003c\/i\u003ein French Legislation and Literature – Melanie Hawthorne: \u003ci\u003eRenée Vivien, frondeuse\u003c\/i\u003e: A Woman Taking Pleasure in Behaving Badly – Shirley Jordan: Eating Between Pleasure and Discontent in Marie NDiaye’s «La Gourmandise» (1996) – Carrie Tarr: Perverse Pleasures: Women’s Takes on «Extreme» French Cinema – Siobhán McIlvanney: In Celebration of Celibacy: Sophie Fontanel’s \u003ci\u003eL’Envie \u003c\/i\u003e(2011).","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042518401367,"sku":"9781788743839","price":49.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788743839.jpg?v=1750954482","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plaisirs-de-femmes-women-pleasure-and-transgression-in-french-literature-and-culture-9781788743839","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}