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Violette Leduc’s Thérèse and Isabelle is a story of marginalized love that has itself been marginalized. Shrouded by censorship laws since the 1950s, Thérèse and Isabelle, just published by the Feminist Press, is now completely unexpurgated and available to a US audience for the first time.
It has been pointed out that Leduc's own ambivalent attitude towards feminist politics (and more specifically her apparent belief that literary activity affords women access to a (privileged) virility they otherwise lack) mean that her texts cannot be taken to embody a 'revanche feministe'.5 However, Leduc's position must not be oversimplified.
Aug 9, 2018 · Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Violette Leduc. In the summer of 1956, Violette Leduc, the autofiction pioneer and protegée of Simone de Beauvoir, began inpatient psychiatric treatment. She was forty-nine and suicidal.
Apr 7, 2016 · She was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force. Thursday marks her birthday: but why has Leduc been left in the margins?
In 1955, Violette published her novel Ravages with Gallimard, but the editor censored the first 150-page section of the book, which depicts Violette's sexual encounters and defloration with her female classmate; Isabelle P. Gallimard censored this section by labelling it obscene. [8]
Jun 12, 2014 · June 12, 2014. In “Violette,” Emmanuelle Devos plays one of those impossible women who can’t give anyone, most of all herself, a break. For Violette Leduc, a black marketeer turned ...
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Jan 20, 2016 · 6. Leduc was amongst the first to write about lesbian relationships, and amongst the first to write about getting an abortion which she did at a time when it was still illegal to get an abortion in France. How was her revelation received and was she then treated as something of an activist or a feminist as a consequence?
