Taking Up Space: Women at Work in Contemporary France

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A study of contemporary French representations of women at work.

Taking Up Space explores representations of women in contemporary French film, literature, television, magazines, and visual art. In particular, contributors reflect on how these images present women at work in various spacesprofessional, reproductive, domestic, illegal, and activist alike.

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"This volume provides a fascinating, rich and critically significant panorama of women's experiences in the French workplace through an analysis of post-1968 literature, film, artistic and media texts. It brings together chapters from 18 different authors that explore the gendered nature of women's labour from the perspective of work space (rather than workplace) on the premise that women take up spaces in work that are already occupied and in which they become deviant social subjects. The editors invoke metaphors of the door to elucidate the ways in which women are either positioned behind closed doors, moving through revolving doors or seeking to blow the doors off. This inspiring and voluminous collection, analysing such a rich and wide-ranging corpus of texts, will be essential reading for scholars of French studies, feminism, the workplace and labour studies and speaks to the importance of cultural production in representing and challenging discrimination faced by working women today." -- "Professor Sarah Waters, University of Leeds"

Author Bio

Sonja Stojanovic is assistant professor of French and gender studies at the University of Notre Dame. Siham Bouamer is assistant professor of French Studies at the University of Cincinnati.