Taking Up Space

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic PART I Behind Closed Doors: Work and Intimate Spaces A Transmedial and Transtemporal Reading of Labour on the Run in Albertine - Sarrazin’s L’Astragale Polly Galis Good Housekeeping: Domestic Noir and Domestic Work in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce - Ciara GormanA Woman’s Huis clos: Exhausted Feminism in Paule Constant’s Confidence pour confidence - Jennifer Willging A Life’s Work: Accounting for Birth in Naissances - Amaleena Damlé Sexual Identity as Work in Mireille Best’s Il n’y a pas d’hommes au paradis - Blase A. Provitola Psychoanalytical Work in Chahdortt Djavann’s Je ne suis pas celle que je suis - Rebecca Rosenberg PART II Revolving Doors: Liminal and Precarious Spaces ‘Be proud of all the Fatimas’: From Alienated Labour to Poetic Consciousness in Philippe Faucon’s Fatima - Siham Bouamer Chimerical Cashiers: Exposure, Ableism and the Foreign Body in Marie-Hélène Lafon’s Gordana and Nos vies - Sonja Stojanovic Subterranean Space and Subjugation: ‘Being Below’ in Delphine de Vigan’s Les Heures souterraines - Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil In Concrete Terms: Gendering Labour in Anne Garréta’s Dans l’béton - Jennifer Carr Woman at Sea? Space and Work in Catherine Poulain’s Le grand marin - Amy Wigelsworth From Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi’s Professional Transition - Maxime Foerster PART III From Opening a Few Doors to Blowing Them Off Women’s Bénévolat militant at the Beginning of the MLF - Sandra Daroczi Women Working – Women Rebelling. Female Community and Gender Relations in Ah!Nana - Valentina Denzel ‘Putting Us Back in Our Place’: #MeToo, Women and the Literary/Cultural Establishment - Mercédès Baillargeon Breaking Down Barriers and Advocating for Change in the French Film Industry: The Career and Activism of Actress Aïssa Maïga - Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp Unapologetically Visible? Representing and Reassessing Contemporary French Womanhood in Dix Pour Cent - Loïc Bourdeau Tracées to Black Excellence? Black Women at Work in Mariannes Noires by Mame-Fatou Niang and Kaytie Nielsen - Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel Conclusion - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic