Infiltrating Culture: Power and Identity in Contemporary Women's Writing

Abstract

Claire Bretecher's Les Frustres: why do little boys play with washing machines and why do little girls lie about it? how does one inherit feminist knowledge? departening a role? playing and representation feminism and opposition? performance? a minority role le monde est vieux. Francoise Ega's Lettres a une noire: the cleaning lady as ethnographer - working, giving and writing the housecleaner as ethnographer - the limits of labour as observation the oppositional resources of Mamegas role - writing as labour, labour as gift the 'diversion' of the letter - illegitimate reading and the book as 'perruque'. Michele Maillet's L'Etoile noire: infiltrating concentration camp logic the ambivalence of 'counter-history' Sidonie, the dead author of counter-history Suzanne, interpretation and silence. Colette's Prisons et Paradis and Sand's recipes: reading a recipe book in bed or the de-appropriation of feminine work 'consultable' vs 'readable' texts infiltrational practices - reading in bed and collecting recipes writing recipes in bed. Renee Vivien's La dame a la louve and Une femme m'apparut: why should I swallow a toad? - self-defeating gender reversals infiltration and canonicity the male and female 'principles' The Woman of the Wolf - the infiltration of silence portrait of the critic as male reader 'negative' ironies the desinfiltrated toad. Conclusion: James Bond as civil servant - the limits of infiltration.

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