Abstract

This book aims to introduce, situate and contextualize the fictional work by women in the post-war period in France as well as to develop a feminist analysis of the work in French feminist theory. The writers treated include those from an earlier generation, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Christine Rochefort, Genevieve Serreau and Monique Wittig, as well as Marie Cardinal, Annie Ernaux, Djanet Lachmet, Claire Etcherelli, Michele Perrein and the exponents of ecriture feminine associated with des femmes publishers and the psychanalyse et politique group, such as Chantal Chawaf and Helene Cixous.