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She Said No: The Gender of Consent from Fairy Tales to #Metoo

She Said No: The Gender of Consent from Fairy Tales to #Metoo

Lyman, Elisabeth
Tamas, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Early Modern Feminisms

Literary CriticismFrench History

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 9, 2027

ISBN10: 1644534347
ISBN13: 9781644534342
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Feb 9 2027
Pages: 206
Language: English

She Said NO investigates the gender inequality in the authority to speak--and therefore to refuse--that prevailed in the establishment and interpretation of the French classics. By selecting authors deemed essential to French cultural heritage and erasing the works of women writers, this biased canon has systematically undervalued female agency--even in well-known works by both men and women, such as Beauty and the Beast, The Princess of Clèves, and Little Red Riding Hood. With this book, Jennifer Tamas fills a striking gap in early modern French studies by conceptualizing consent in a society where being a woman made it structurally difficult to say no. Yet, women did refuse. The history Tamas explores is one of forgotten, erased, misunderstood, or inadmissible refusals, and how they have been obscured. The #MeToo movement has brought questions of female agency and consent to the fore, and this book retraces an archive of refusal to serve as a source of inspiration for contemporary feminist discourse and to change our reception of the French canon.

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