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Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals. This book aims redresses this balance by studying these forgotten intellectuals creating a cultural and theoretical re-evaluation of the gendered phenomenon of the public intellectual in France

Founded in 1953 by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud, L'Express was a politically committed outlet predominantly led by Giroud's strong editorial direction until its rebranding in 1964 along the lines of Time magazine. Its goals were clear: to encourage modernization in French cultural and economic life, to support Pierre Mendès France and to oppose the war in Indochina. This article investigates Giroud's vision of the press, her politics and her journalistic dialogue with other significant actors at a complex and pivotal juncture in French Cold War history. Giroud opened up the columns of L'Express to a diverse range of leading writers and intellectuals, even to those in disagreement with the publication, as the case study of Jean-Paul Sartre highlighted here shows. In so doing, Giroud's L'Express constituted a singularly powerful press platform in Cold War France.

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This article considers how recent French documentary filmmaking has engaged with the representation of masculinities in some of Paris's most emblematic banlieues. Focusing on Alice Diop's sixth film Vers la tendresse (2016), which brings to the screen testimonies of straight and gay men from La Courneuve, Aulnay-sous-Bois, and Montreuil, this article examines how the documentary form offers new ways to interrogate men's experiences of love and relationships in the French peripheries. Drawing on an interview with the filmmaker, this article argues that Diop's conversation-based performative documentary filmmaking, with its detaching of image from sound, destabilizes viewer assumptions and challenges cultural clichés about men and emotion. By emphasizing the universal characteristics of the men's personal accounts, this article suggests that Diop's film reclaims the banlieues from the stereotype of a marginal space of "otherness" and offers instead singular narratives, voicing poignant portraits of masculinities that resonate widely in twenty-first century France.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Then: Second Wave Feminism in France -- 1.Before Les Femmes s'entetent: The `Bermuda Triangle' of French Feminism? / Sian Reynolds -- 2.1975: The Year of Women / Imogen Long -- 3.From Muse to Insoumuse: Delphine Seyrig, Videaste / Grace An -- pt. 2 Then and Now: Feminism and Public Arenas -- 4.Work-Family Reconciliation Policy in France: Challenging or Reinforcing the Gender Division of Domestic and Care Work since the 1970s? / Jan Windebank -- 5.Feminist Publishing in France 1975-2000: A Quest for Legitimacy / Fanny Mazzone -- 6.Parole(s) de Femmes: From Le Torchon brule to Les Nouvelles News / Maggie Allison -- 7.Utopian Gaiety: French Lesbian Activism and the Politics of Pleasure (1974-2016) / Tamara Chaplin -- 8.`La femme du soldat inconnu': Feminism and French lieux de memoire / Alison S. Fell --