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9780230613263

Women, Feminism, and Femininity in the 21st Century American and French Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230613263

  • ISBN10:

    0230613268

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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 and suggests paths of reflection on what women can do to improve their lives in the twenty-first century. This is a must read for anyone interested in the nature of womanhood today in the Western World.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction--Béatrice Mousli and Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller * France 2007: A Glimpse at Women’s Life in the 21st Century--Béatrice Mousli * Egalité, Liberté . . . Infidelité? Musings on French and American Sexual Behavior--Alexandra Migoya * Women in Management and the Glass Ceiling: the French Situation--Jacqueline Laufer * The Stalled Revolution: Gender and Time Allocation in the U.S--Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi * Career Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples--Joy Pixley * Sexual Harassment: Crime, Discrimination, or Just Bad Business?--Christine Littleton * Parity Versus History--Christine Fauré * Parity and the Sexual Order--Réjane Sénac-Slawinski * Feminist Perspectives in the USA on Parité: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Amy Mazur * Feminine Creative Non-Fiction in the US: A Model for French Feminists?--Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller * Rethinking Parenthood to Achieve Reproductive Equality--Marcela Iacub * Towards a Complete Equality: Political and Theoretical Introduction to Post-Sexuality--Patrice Maniglier * Third Wave Feminism, Sexualities, and the Adventures of the Posts--Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner * Conclusion--Béatrice Mousli & Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller

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