Overview

Focusing on representations of women's experiences in contemporary France, 'Taking Up Space' examines how women inhabit a variety of work spaces. It also speaks to the importance of cultural productions in calling out labour issues affecting women, as well as in offering a platform that allows us to imagine a future where inclusive and equitable work spaces are the norm. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's phenomenological use of objects, the book explores women's experiences through different metaphors of the door related to labour. The contributors demonstrate how doors are not only closed or open, but also serve as a threshold. Taken together, the chapters convey how women's work experiences can range from states of oppression to survival and celebration, and demonstrates how through deliberate stances and actions, various work spaces can become sites of liberation and revolution.

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Author:   Siham Bouamer ,  Sonja Stojanovic
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786839077

ISBN 10:   1786839075
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic PART I Behind Closed Doors: Work and Intimate Spaces A Transmedial and Transtemporal Reading of Labour on the Run in Albertine - Sarrazin's L'Astragale Polly Galis Good Housekeeping: Domestic Noir and Domestic Work in Leila Slimani's Chanson douce - Ciara GormanA Woman's Huis clos: Exhausted Feminism in Paule Constant's Confidence pour confidence - Jennifer Willging A Life's Work: Accounting for Birth in Naissances - Amaleena Damle Sexual Identity as Work in Mireille Best's Il n'y a pas d'hommes au paradis - Blase A. Provitola Psychoanalytical Work in Chahdortt Djavann's Je ne suis pas celle que je suis - Rebecca Rosenberg PART II Revolving Doors: Liminal and Precarious Spaces 'Be proud of all the Fatimas': From Alienated Labour to Poetic Consciousness in Philippe Faucon's Fatima - Siham Bouamer Chimerical Cashiers: Exposure, Ableism and the Foreign Body in Marie-Helene Lafon's Gordana and Nos vies - Sonja Stojanovic Subterranean Space and Subjugation: 'Being Below' in Delphine de Vigan's Les Heures souterraines - Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil In Concrete Terms: Gendering Labour in Anne Garreta's Dans l'beton - Jennifer Carr Woman at Sea? Space and Work in Catherine Poulain's Le grand marin - Amy Wigelsworth From Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi's Professional Transition - Maxime Foerster PART III From Opening a Few Doors to Blowing Them Off Women's Benevolat militant at the Beginning of the MLF - Sandra Daroczi Women Working - Women Rebelling. Female Community and Gender Relations in Ah!Nana - Valentina Denzel 'Putting Us Back in Our Place': #MeToo, Women and the Literary/Cultural Establishment - Mercedes Baillargeon Breaking Down Barriers and Advocating for Change in the French Film Industry: The Career and Activism of Actress Aissa Maiga - Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp Unapologetically Visible? Representing and Reassessing Contemporary French Womanhood in Dix Pour Cent - Loic Bourdeau Tracees to Black Excellence? Black Women at Work in Mariannes Noires by Mame-Fatou Niang and Kaytie Nielsen - Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel Conclusion - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic

Reviews

""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""

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This book will mainly be of interest to an academic audience, for scholarly studies and as instructional material. As the first edited volume on the representations in various cultural productions of women at work in contemporary France, it will be particularly useful to scholars writing and teaching on the question of gender and labour in post-68 France.

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