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Women in Contemporary Culture
Roles and identities in France and Spain
Dealing with current events in France and Spain, this is the only comparative study of its kind, investigating how women construct their identities within the public sphere and highlighting the ways in which traditional or modern values impact on female identity in these countries. Which female figures are proposed for our admiration? Who proposes them and what values do they represent? This is an evaluation of womens lives at the end of the 20th Century the Century of Women celebrating the achievements and looking to opportunities presented by the century to come.
Table of Contents
Contributors
List of Tables
Preface and Dedication
Abbreviations
Introduction by Lesley K. Twomey
Women and Politics
1 Parity in French Politics
Sheila Perry and Sue Hart
2 Women and Political Participation
Monica Threlfall
Women, Religion, and Politics
3 The Image and Role of Women Promoted by the Extreme Right and Catholic Integrists in Contemporary France
William B. Smith
4 ’Licencia más amplia para matar’? Changes to Spain’s Abortion Law and the Traditionalist Catholic Response
Lesley K. Twomey
Women and Work
5 ’Still Working on it’: Recent Steps towards Employment Equality in France
Jean Burrell
6 Gendered Structures in the City: Management in Spain and Professional Identity in Etxebarría’s Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas
Lesley K. Twomey
Women and Feminisms
7 Feminism in Spain: A History of Love and Hate
Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar
8 Lesbian Identity in Contemporary Spain: ’One of the Greatest Taboos Ever’
Jacky Collins
9 An Introduction to Julia Kristeva
Sylvie Gambaudo
Women and their Writing
10 The Quest for Identity in the Later Fiction of Simone de Beauvoir
Alison T. Holland
11 Discursive Configurations of Identity in El cuarto de atrás and Crónica del desamor
Vanessa Knights
List of Tables
Preface and Dedication
Abbreviations
Introduction by Lesley K. Twomey
Women and Politics
1 Parity in French Politics
Sheila Perry and Sue Hart
2 Women and Political Participation
Monica Threlfall
Women, Religion, and Politics
3 The Image and Role of Women Promoted by the Extreme Right and Catholic Integrists in Contemporary France
William B. Smith
4 ’Licencia más amplia para matar’? Changes to Spain’s Abortion Law and the Traditionalist Catholic Response
Lesley K. Twomey
Women and Work
5 ’Still Working on it’: Recent Steps towards Employment Equality in France
Jean Burrell
6 Gendered Structures in the City: Management in Spain and Professional Identity in Etxebarría’s Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas
Lesley K. Twomey
Women and Feminisms
7 Feminism in Spain: A History of Love and Hate
Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar
8 Lesbian Identity in Contemporary Spain: ’One of the Greatest Taboos Ever’
Jacky Collins
9 An Introduction to Julia Kristeva
Sylvie Gambaudo
Women and their Writing
10 The Quest for Identity in the Later Fiction of Simone de Beauvoir
Alison T. Holland
11 Discursive Configurations of Identity in El cuarto de atrás and Crónica del desamor
Vanessa Knights