Liberty, equality, maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux

by Alison Fell

2003 208 pages eng

"The concept of motherhood emerges strongly in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux, whose work is examined here in the light of current debates about women's reproductive function and the longstanding glorification of the mere au foyer in France, driven by fear of a f…