This volume explores the relationship between Francophone women and the material world. Topics include: the female body and objectification; contradictions of the im/materiality of the body; ‘the material’ and women’s engagement with the economy; the relationship of the female body to material objects; cinematic representations of the female body.

This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism».