«Plaisirs de femmes»

Maggie Allison is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Modern French Studies at the University of Bradford. Her research and publishing cover gender, media, sexual harassment legislation and the role and televisual representation of women in politics and broadcasting. She has co-edited a number of volumes drawn from the Women in French (UK) biennial conferences. Elliot Evans is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, researching feminist, queer and transgender theories. Publications include «‹Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (...) simmer within me›: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado» for Paragraph (2018) and Queer Permeability: The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado (2019). Carrie Tarr, Emerita Professor of Film at Kingston University, has published extensively on ethnicity, gender and sexuality in French and Francophone cinema. Publications include Cinema and the Second Sex: Women’s Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s (with B. Rollet, 2001), Reframing Difference: Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France (2005) and a guest edited issue of Studies in French Cinema on «Women’s Film-making in France 2000–2010» (2012).

CONTENTS: Chantal Chawaf: Écrivaine récalcitrante: entretien avec Maggie Allison – Kate Bonin: Growing up Camille: Gusto and Disgust in Mireille Best’s Camille en octobre (1988) – Rebecca J. Deroo: Pleasure, Pain and Subversion in Agnès Varda’s L’Opéra Mouffe [Diary of a Pregnant Woman] (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 En famille (1990) and Ladivine (2013) – Elliot Evans: Liberté sexuelle: Pleasure and Identity in Catherine Millet’s La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) – Maria Tomlinson: Subverting Patriarchal Norms(?): Women, Pleasure and the Menopause in Michèle Sarde’s Constance et la cinquantaine (2003) – Diana Holmes: Plaisir de lire: Women Readers and the Popular Bestsellers of Guillaume Musso – Dúnlaith Bird: Filles de joie, filles sans voix: Representing the Vagabonde in French Legislation and Literature – Melanie Hawthorne: Renée Vivien, frondeuse: 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 L’Envie (2011).