Forty Years of the Fifth French Republic

The Editors: 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 both in Britain and in France, including the elections of May/June 1997. She has published articles on abortion in France and on French media representations of sexual harassment. With Richard Cleminson she recently co-edited In/visibility: Gender and Representation in a European Context. She is currently writing on the portrayal of women, and also their professional role, in contemporary French media.
Owen Heathcote is Senior Lecturer and Head of French in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford. He researches on the relationship between violence, gender and representation in French literature and film, and has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers such as Balzac, Guibert, Jourdan, Wittig and Duras. With Alex Hughes and James Williams he has recently co-edited Gay Signatures. Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995 (Berg). He is currently editing a volume on gendered violence in French literature, from Constant to Duras.

Contents: Maggie Allison/Owen Heathcote: Introduction - David S. Bell: May 68: Explaining the Power Vacuum in the Early Years of the Fifth Republic - Sharon Collins: The Role of the Parti Communiste Français in the Fifth Republic - Graeme Hayes: Environmental Politics in France: A Place for Single Issue Groups? - June Burnham: Contrasts and Contradictions in French Regional Policy: from de Gaulle to Chirac; from the Treaty of Rome to the Treaty of Amsterdam; from central direction to local cooperation - Françoise Convey: Les Relations France Métropolitaine/Corse au cours de la Cinquième République: Territoires et Discours - Kenneth Dyson: EMU and the Fifth Republic: Craftsmen of Discourse - Margaret Atack: May 58 to May 68: Exile, Alienation and Social Change in Claire Etcherelli's Trilogy - Renate Günther: Outside : The Fifth Republic in the Writing of Marguerite Duras - Christine Fauré: La Représentation des Femmes sous la Cinquième République - Steve Wharton: Progress: what progress? The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement in the Fifth Republic - Chris Warne: La Jeunesse est-elle toujours en crise? The Social Representation of Youth under the Fifth Republic - Helen Trouille: Secrecy, Privacy and Human Rights in the Fifth Republic - David Looseley: The Work and the Person: Discourse and Dialogue in the History of the Ministry of Culture - Catherine Morel: Corporate Patronage of the Arts in the Fifth Republic: Fact or Fiction? - Mairi Maclean: Corporate Governance in the Fifth Republic: Rhetoric and Reality - Hélène Gill: Le Discours de la francophonie comme vecteur de la modernité dans le Maghreb postcolonial: néocolonialisme et autres logiques - Alec G. Hargreaves: Resetting the Margins: Majority Ethnic Perceptions of Immigrant Minorities in France, 1958-1998 - Danielle Robinson: La Représentation de l'islam dans les films arabes, beurs et franco-maghrébins - Leonard R. Koos: Tales of the City: Representing the HLM in Contemporary French Culture - Hugh Starkey: Liberté, Laïcité, Identité . Is the defence of Laïcité in Schools a Threat to the Fifth Republic? - Gino Raymond: Preparing the Sixth Republic?