La presse féminine constitue une source pour comprendre la place de la femme dans la société et les relations entre les sexes. Les contributions réunies éclairent sa singularité en tant qu'entreprise médiatique. Elles montrent l'évolution des discours aux lectrices, qui mêlent identités assignée et en mouvement, et invitent à prendre en considération son rôle de révélateur des mutations sociales.

L'auteur, d'un texte enlevé, aborde l'hypocauste, les cloîtres de Saint-Jean-en-Isle, de vieilles tours romanes, trois madones, Jean Del Cour, Nicolas Defrêcheux, Henri Simon, Noël Ruet et la Meuse.

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. (With an introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.)