WOMEN IN FRENCH
The 2002 biennial conference - to be held at Hinsley Hall, Headingley, Leeds - Friday-Sunday, 26th-28th April 2002.
WIF is a network of women teaching and researching in French Studies. Founded in 1987, since 1990 we have held regular biennial residential two-day conferences in Yorkshire, and a series of one-day events across the country.
Call for papers
A Belle Epoque?
Women and feminism in French society and culture (1890-1910)
(N.B the conference will also extend into the contemporary period see below)
Our aim here is to bring together and stimulate research on this exciting period of first wave feminism, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. We are sending out the call well in advance so that there is time to undertake and research new projects. We believe that there is space, indeed a need, for a good, original book on this topic in English, and the conference will form the basis for an edited publication. Proposals are therefore also invited from colleagues who are unable to attend the conference, but would like to be considered for inclusion in the book.
We invite proposals for papers (20-25 minutes) relevant to the conference theme, including on the topics outlined below.
- Marguerite Durand and La Fronde
- Women and the birth of cinema
- Feminist movements of the Belle Epoque
- Lesbian culture: sapphism, the Natalie Clifford Barney set
- Decadence, Symbolism, Modernism and women
- Autobiographical writing about the period
- Popular fiction: what did women read?
- Colette: Claudine, Minne, the music-hall texts
- Women in provincial France
- Women and the colonies (colonisers and colonised)
- Remembering the Belle Epoque: reconstructions of the period in literature and cinema
- Women and fashion
- Women and sport
- Women and the birth of psychoanalysis
- Women's achievements in the arts (e.g. Sarah Bernhardt, Camille Claudel) and sciences (e.g. Marie Curie).
+ Contemporary France: a belle époque for women?
Papers are also invited on women in contemporary French and francophone society and culture.
Deadline for proposals: Friday June 1st 2001. Please send to either of the Academic Conference Organisers (below).
ORGANISERS
Academic programme:
- Diana Holmes (Professor of French, University of Leeds).
Address for correspondence: Department of French, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT.
E-mail: d.holmes@leeds.ac.uk
- Carrie Tarr (Research Fellow, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kingston University)
Address for correspondence: 4, Glebe Road, Barnes, LONDON SW13 OEA.
E-mail: c.tarr@kingston.ac.uk.
Conference:
Maggie Allison (Senior Lecturer in French, University of Bradford).
Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford, BRADFORD BD7 1DP.
E-mail: m.e.allison@bradford.ac.uk.