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Women, Feminism, and Femininity in the 21st Century
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Hardcover. This book offers the first comparative critical appraisal of how women live in the US and in France and suggests paths of reflection on what women can do to improve their lives in the 21st century. Editor(s): Mousli, Beatrice; Roustang-Stoller, Eve-Alice. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 455.
American women look at French women as having it all: sex, motherhood, work, and public office, while French women look at American women as puritanical, excessively feminist, and unable to "have it all" without guilt. The essays in this book by leading American and French academics and critics set the record straight by assessing the truth of each outlook. They conclude that facts are different from imagination, and that on many issues, French feminists could actually look to the U.S. for inspiration. This book offers the first comparative critical appraisal of how women live in the US and in France ... Read more
American women look at French women as having it all: sex, motherhood, work, and public office, while French women look at American women as puritanical, excessively feminist, and unable to "have it all" without guilt. The essays in this book by leading American and French academics and critics set the record straight by assessing the truth of each outlook. They conclude that facts are different from imagination, and that on many issues, French feminists could actually look to the U.S. for inspiration. This book offers the first comparative critical appraisal of how women live in the US and in France ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230613263
SKU
V9780230613263
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Ref
99-15
About N/A
BÉATRICE MOUSLI is the author of numerous books, among them Intentions, Histoire d'une Revue Littéraire des Années Vingt (1996), Les Editions du Sagittaire 1919-1979 (2003), Valery Larbaud (1998), Virginia Woolf (2001), Max Jacob (2005). EVE-ALICE ROUSTANG-STOLLER teaches French and French literature at Barnard College in New York City, USA.
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