London French Postgraduate Conference 2010
Wednesday 10th November 2010, IGRS, London
Présentation:
'[La femme] se détermine et se différencie par rapport à l'homme et non celui-ci par rapport à elle; elle est l'inessentiel en face de l'essentiel. Il est le Sujet, il est l'Absolu: elle est l'Autre.' Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe, 1949. In her seminal work of 1949, Le Deuxième sexe, Simone de Beauvoir defined the status of women in society as being that of 'l'Autre'. However, just as society has evolved and changed, so have our methods of understanding and analysing it; with the emergence of subsequent waves of feminism and new forms of criticism, such as queer studies and postcolonial studies, new approaches to and conceptions of 'l'Autre' have developed. The question is how far we have really come: sixty years on, to what extent – or how – are women defined by their 'otherness'? The hope of the world's women standing in unity has been shattered by the alleged ethnocentrism and heterosexism of Western feminist movements, which creates its own Others: the Other's Others. Consequently, how have notions of, and reactions to, 'l'Autre' changed? What groupings are formed by the reconfiguration of the Other, and what are the intersections and tensions between these different forms of 'otherness'? Finally, how is ‘l’Autre’ represented in different cultural mediums such as French and Francophone literature and film, television, journalism and the internet?
With a view to examining the various conceptions of 'l'Autre' and how they have evolved over time, we welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of the conference theme in relation to the French-speaking world. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Wednesday 10th November 2010, IGRS, London
Présentation:
'[La femme] se détermine et se différencie par rapport à l'homme et non celui-ci par rapport à elle; elle est l'inessentiel en face de l'essentiel. Il est le Sujet, il est l'Absolu: elle est l'Autre.' Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe, 1949. In her seminal work of 1949, Le Deuxième sexe, Simone de Beauvoir defined the status of women in society as being that of 'l'Autre'. However, just as society has evolved and changed, so have our methods of understanding and analysing it; with the emergence of subsequent waves of feminism and new forms of criticism, such as queer studies and postcolonial studies, new approaches to and conceptions of 'l'Autre' have developed. The question is how far we have really come: sixty years on, to what extent – or how – are women defined by their 'otherness'? The hope of the world's women standing in unity has been shattered by the alleged ethnocentrism and heterosexism of Western feminist movements, which creates its own Others: the Other's Others. Consequently, how have notions of, and reactions to, 'l'Autre' changed? What groupings are formed by the reconfiguration of the Other, and what are the intersections and tensions between these different forms of 'otherness'? Finally, how is ‘l’Autre’ represented in different cultural mediums such as French and Francophone literature and film, television, journalism and the internet?
With a view to examining the various conceptions of 'l'Autre' and how they have evolved over time, we welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of the conference theme in relation to the French-speaking world. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Othering of non-white/lesbian/disabled women in literature/theory/film
- Representation of 'l'Autre' by women from 'marginalised' groups
- Feminist/Postfeminist/Queer/Psychoanalytic/Postcolonial understandings of 'l'Autre'
- 'L'Autre' in French/Francophone literature, film, art, culture, history, theory, philosophy or politics
- French national identity and the Other (including debates about the Burka and the Niqab)
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