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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97002648 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Ozouf uses the woman's portrait, traditionally a male genre, to portray ten French women of letters whose lives span the period from the eve of the French Revolution to the resurgence of the feminist movement in the late twentieth century. |
| | She studies the letters and memoirs of Mme du Deffand, Mme de Charriere, Mme Roland, Mme de Staël, Mme de Remusat, George Sand, Hubertine Auclert, Colette, Simone Weil, and Simone de Beauvoir. |
| | Rejecting the male constructions of femininity typical of this genre, Ozouf restores these women's voices in order to study their own often-conflicted attitudes toward education, marriage, motherhood, sex, and work, as well as the dilemma of writing in a literary world that did not support women's work. |
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