30
December
2007
We are pleased to inform you that Oxford Journals has published Joy Charnley’s article entitled Ni ennemie, ni rivale: Female friendship in works by Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Noëlle Revaz in Forum for Modern Language Studies.
Abstract
This article studies the theme of female friendship in work by three women writers from French-speaking Switzerland: La Paix des ruches by Alice Rivaz (1947), Pour mourir en février by Anne-Lise Grobéty (1969) and Rapport aux bêtes (2002) by Noëlle Revaz. The writers chosen for this study represent three generations, having been born in 1901, 1949 and 1968 respectively. The article compares and contrasts their different representations of friendships between women. Rivaz, writing before Le Deuxième sexe and the modern women’s movement, has a very idealistic view of relations between women, which she contrasts strongly with male–female interaction; Grobéty, writing in the wake of 1968 and during the early days of modern feminism, is perhaps more realistic but again sees men as potential threats to relationships between women; finally, Revaz is completely different since her female character is isolated from other women, dominated by the male narrator and sidelined. This article thus seeks to show how, over a period of sixty years, the theme of female friendship has been dealt with in different ways by women writers, and establishes links with changing attitudes to the women’s movement.
Key Words: Switzerland • women’s writing • feminism • friendship • littérature romande • novel • Rivaz, Alice • Grobéty, Anne-Lise • Revaz, Noëlle
Here are the free-access links to the online article:
Abstract: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/cqm118?
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Full Text: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/cqm118?
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PDF: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/cqm118?
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30
December
2007
The 2008 WIFIS conference will take place on Saturday 18 October, very likely in the Mitchell Library and will be organised by Elisabeth Campbell, Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier.
The 2009 event will be held at the University of Aberdeen and will be organised by Elizabeth Macknight and Clemence O’Connor.
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25
October
2007
The sixth annual meeting of Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS) took place on 13 October 2007 at the Glasgow Women’s Library (www.womenslibrary.org.uk), the only women’s library in Scotland. The conference, organized by Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier (Strathclyde), welcomed participants from throughout Britain as well as from the universities of Ottawa and British Columbia. Conference panels took up the Québécois writer Hélène Monette, chick media, and women’s letter writing, including as yet unpublished letters written to Lucie Dreyfus at the height of the Dreyfus Affair, the letters of nineteenth-century aristocratic girls, and the letters of Flora Tristan. At the WIFIS round table, Professors Lorna Milne (St Andrews), Siân Reynolds (Stirling), and Mary Orr (Southampton) discussed career strategies and pitfalls specific to the experience of women in higher education. The WIFIS plenary was given by Thérèse Moreau (Lausanne), who asked, ‘Les femmes sont-elles solubles dans la démocratie française?’ The organizers remain grateful for financial support to the University of
Strathclyde and the Alliance Française de Glasgow. Next year’s meeting, broadly themed around ‘Women’s History/ L’Histoire des femmes’ will take place in Glasgow on 18 October and will welcome historians from Marseilles as part of the Glasgow/Marseilles Twin Towns Programme. For more information, please visit the WIFIS blog at http://wifis.edublogs.org. (Report by Amy Wygant, Glasgow).
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25
October
2007
The WIFIS 2007 conference was a great success and we would like to thank everyone for their enthusiastic participation and enlightening contributions. Special thanks to the Glasgow Women’s Library Team for their behind-the-scenes work, fantastic support on the day and documentation of the event…Compromising pictures will soon be posted on the blog. If you wish to get a copy of the pictures taken on the day, e-mail me: caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk
Thanks again to everyone
Vive WIFIS!
Caroline & Joy
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25
October
2007
Here is the latest version of the programme wifis-2007-programme-final.doc
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11
September
2007
Click on the following link to access general information about the forthcoming conference: General info
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27
June
2007
The registration form for the 2007 conference is available to download from the following link: wifis-2007-registration-form.doc
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27
June
2007
Here is the link to the poster for the 2007 conference: wifis-poster.jpg. It has been designed especially for the occasion by Kathryn Pender. You can view more of her great work at www.kpender.com
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8
June
2007
The 2007 WIFIS conference will be held at the Glasgow Women’s Library, 2nd floor, 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow.
Information on how to get there are available from the Glasgow Women’s Library site. Click on the link on the right to access the website directly.
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