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Women, Feminism, and Femininity in the 21st Century

American and French Perspectives

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  • © 2009

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  1. Béatrice Mousli
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  2. Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Béatrice Mousli, Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller
      Pages 1-12

  3. The Battle of the Sexes: From the Bedroom to the Workplace, New Perspectives on Old Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. France in 2009: A Glimpse into Women’s Lives

      • Béatrice Mousli
      Pages 15-28

    3. Liberté, Egalité … Infidelité? Musings on French and American Sexual Behavior

      • Alexandra Migoya
      Pages 29-40

    4. Women in Management and the Glass Ceiling: The French Situation

      • Jacqueline Laufer
      Pages 41-54

    5. The Stalled Revolution: Gender and Time Allocation in the United States

      • Lynne M. Casper, Suzanne M. Bianchi
      Pages 55-77

    6. Career Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples

      • Joy E. Pixley
      Pages 79-105

    7. Sexual Harassment: Crime, Discrimination, or Just Bad Business?

      • Christine A. Littleton
      Pages 107-115

  4. Parity: A French Interpretation of Affirmative Action?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Parity versus History

      • Christine Fauré
      Pages 119-131

    3. Parity and the Sexual Order

      • Réjane Sénac-Slawinski
      Pages 133-154

    4. Feminist Perspectives on Parité in the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

      • Amy G. Mazur
      Pages 155-173

  5. Feminism and Postmodernism: Looking Toward the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Creative Feminine Nonfiction in the United States: A Model for French Feminists?

      • Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller
      Pages 177-187

    3. Rethinking Parenthood to Achieve Reproductive Equality

      • Marcela Iacub
      Pages 189-199

    4. Political and Theoretical Introduction to Post-Sexuality

      • Patrice Maniglier
      Pages 201-217

    5. Third-Wave Feminism, Sexualities, and the Adventures of the Posts

      • Rhonda Hammer, Douglas Kellner
      Pages 219-234

    6. Conclusion

      • Béatrice Mousli, Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller
      Pages 235-238

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-249
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About this book

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.

About the authors


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, USA.

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