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This book represents the first comprehensive collection of essays in English dedicated entirely to the study of lesbian inscriptions in francophone society and culture. Spanning the period from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century, the volume offers a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on ways in which lesbianism has been represented and represented itself, with essays on poetry and the novel, contemporary film and television, photography and architecture.These essays will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies and French literature and culture.
Renante Güntner is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Wendy Michallat is Lecturer at the University of Sheffield.
Introduction- Renate Güntner and Wendy MichallatBaudelaire, lesbian poet? - David EvansThe lesbian as ‘femme- écran’? - Owen HeathcoteLesbian desire in recent French and francophone cinema- Lucille CairnsFemale friendships in contemporary popular films by French women directors- Sophie BélotIn the margins and off-centre- Brigitte RolletViolette Leduc écrivaine et lesbienne- Mireille BrioudeThe lesbian body in motion- Stephanie SchechnerFemale masculinities and Simone de Beauvoir- Ursula TiddOutings on the inside- Amanda Crawley JacksonThe pleasures of discovery- Frances E. HutchinsElsie de Wolfe, Natalie Clifford Barney and the lure of Versailles- Sheila CraneNotes on contributors
