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Throughout the history of all civilizations at least until very recently, the most fundamental values at the basis of societal organization and culture were determined and sanctified almost exclusively by men - including the values traditionally associated with women, such as corporeal beauty, purity, motherhood, or empathy. However, from the ancient times already, and increasingly toward the end of the second millennium, women have always found ways to overcome the limits set to them by the ...

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This study examines how the fictional works of contemporary French female authors can be read as a unique fantasy world in which the writer consciously manipulates the reader's (and spectator's) narrative expectations with explicit articulations of female desire. In addition, this work offers a literary and psychoanalytic reading of lesser-known female authors in French culture.

French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and literature -- France. --- Women -- France -- Intellectual life. --- Women and literature -- France. --- French literature --- Motion pictures and literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life