Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: The parcours of women in French, UK / Maggie Allison and Diana Holmes -- Tracking lives: women's biography in perspective / Si�an Reynolds -- Trajectories of two women's libraries: a comparative study of the Biblioth�eque L�eonie La Fontaine and the Biblioth�eque Marguerite Durand / Caroline Verdier -- A business trajectory: assessing female representation in Le petit journal, Europe's first mass circulation daily / Jane Chapman -- "Femme fatale" or "Femme Ph�enix"? The discourse-trajectory of 2007 presidential candidate S�egol�ene Royal / Maggie Allison -- Hello, goodbye? Women's trajectories within the French National Assembly / Manda Green -- Ecrire pour me parcourir: Gis�ele Halimi's parcours and the role of her autobiography / Imogen Long -- Trajectories of homeless women in France / Estelle Soudant-Depelchin -- Nomadic trajectories: postfeminism and contemporary women's writing in French / Amaleena Daml�e -- An illusory journey: the mermaid's trajectory in Ying Chen's fiction / Gabrielle Parker -- Du dedans au dehors: trajectories of the self in diaries by Annie Ernaux / Elise Hugueny-L�eger -- Marie Chaix's trajectory as a writer: the ever present past and the influence of feminism / Nicole Thatcher -- Feminising war experience: representations of the second World War in Qu�eb�ecois historical fiction / Florence Tilch -- Reading Victor Margueritte and L�eon Frapi�e: motherhood, the emancipated woman and female identity / Jurate Kaminskas -- I'm going back where I came from: travels in language and prose in Marie Etienne's Sens�o, la guerre and Silvia Baron-Supervielle's Le livre du retour / Dawn M. Cornelio -- The hijacking of a genre: French female film-makers and the road movie / Michelle Royer -- Ella Maillart and Laurence Deonna: impressions of the USSR / Joy Charnley -- "For lust of knowing what should not be known": Ella Maillart, Ethel Mannin and the journey to Russia in the 1930s / Angela Kershaw.

This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies and investigates the theme of trajectories in French and Francophone women's lives and writings.

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