Mid-life memoirs and the bicultural dilemma

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-169

  De Courtivron, Isabelle ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

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EID: 61449313167     PISSN: 17409292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10260210008456020     Document Type: Article

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13. Erica Jong, Fear of Fifty (N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1994), p. xxiv
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19. Mona Ozouf, Les mots des femmes: Essai sur la singularité française (Paris: Fayard, 1995)
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21. Lynn Hunt, "Time, Constraint, and the Lives of Women" quoted in English by permission of the author, trans, into French in Le débat no. 87, Nov/Dec 1995, pp. 126-130
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