Table of Contents:
  • From the revolution to the franchise
  • From suffrage to representation (1946 to today)
  • Parity : rewriting Democracy in France
  • Women's political(Il)legitimacy
  • Interviews : from assimilation to non-conformity
  • Autobiographical writing : from left, right, and center
  • Biographical writing : Simone Veil, Edith Cresson, and Martine Aubry
  • Huguette Bouchardeau and political (auto)fiction : power and the unconscious
  • Françoise Giroud : rewriting maternal legacies and paternal authority.