Abstract
A recent TV report on French TV channel France 2 showing women being rejected from a cafe in Greater Paris suburb Clichy-sous-Bois provoked a nation-wide debate on whether women are actually victims of exclusionary practices in French banlieues. This chapter aims to address this question by looking at a broad array of novels set in banlieues written by female authors and/ or having female protagonists. A systematic analysis of the female characters' access to space, relations with the other gender as well as the relative importance they attribute to gender violence among other forms of socio-economic segregation they tackle is used to shed light on how women and space are perceived within the marginalised communities themselves.
| Translated title of the contribution | Right to the city in feminine: women, space and violence in contemporary banlieue narratives |
|---|---|
| Original language | French |
| Title of host publication | La ville : quel genre ? |
| Subtitle of host publication | L’espace public à l’épreuve du genre |
| Editors | Corinne Luxembourg, Edna Hernandez-Gonzalez, Emanuelle Faure |
| Place of Publication | Paris |
| Publisher | Le Temps des Cerises |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-2-37071-109-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Mar 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Christina Horvath est enseignante-chercheuse en littérature française contemporaine à l’université de Bath (Grande-Bretagne).Keywords
- gender
- space
- city
- women
- banlieue
