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    Writing from Experience: The Place of the Personal in French Feminist Writing
    with Lyn Thomas
    Feminist Review 61 (1): 27-48. 1999.
    Through a discussion of the work of Marie Cardinal and Annie Ernaux, this article aims to problematize the anglophone academic world's tendency to associate French feminisms predominantly with avant-garde or highly theoretical texts. The work of Ernaux and Cardinal is presented alongside a discussion of its reception by readers and critics in France, and by academics in English-speaking countries. The first part of the article identifies aspects of Ernaux's and Cardinal's works which cannot be e…Read more