«Plaisirs de femmes» Women, Pleasure and Transgression in French Literature and Culture

Maggie Allison is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Modern French Studies at the University of Bradford. Her research and publishing cover gender, media, sexual harassment legislation and the role and televisual representation of women in politics and broadcasting. She has co-edited a number of volumes drawn from the Women in French (UK) biennial conferences.

Elliot Evans is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, researching feminist, queer and transgender theories. Publications include «‹Wittig and Davis, Woolf and Solanas (...) simmer within me›: Reading Feminist Archives in the Queer Writing of Paul B. Preciado» for Paragraph (2018) and Queer Permeability: The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado (2019).

Carrie Tarr , Emerita Professor of Film at Kingston University, has published extensively on ethnicity, gender and sexuality in French and Francophone cinema. Publications include Cinema and the Second Sex: Women’s Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s (with B. Rollet, 2001), Reframing Difference: Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France (2005) and a guest edited issue of Studies in French Cinema on «Women’s Film-making in France 2000–2010» (2012).