“Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction

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“Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction

This article analyses the representation of female executives in a corpus of French films and novels produced from 2000 on. The corpus includes a mixture of male and female directors and novelists, all of whom adopt broadly centre-left or left-wing positions that are highly critical of contemporary...

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Main Author:	Lane, Jeremy F.
Format:	Article
Published:	Routledge 2015
Subjects:	Female executives gender maternity nuclear family community nation neo-liberal globalisation French model.
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33921/

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