Beyond the Spectacle of Suffering: Agnès Varda's L'Une chante, l'autre pas and Rewriting the Subject of Abortion in France

• Published in: Feminist studies Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 14 - 42
• Main Author: Oliver-Powell, Melissa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Park Feminist Studies, Inc 22.03.2020; Feminist Studies
• Subjects: Abortion; Activism; Activists; Anthropomorphism; Anxiety; Beauvoir, Simone de; Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986); Citizenship; Cixous, Helene (1937- ); Criticism and interpretation; Debates; Decriminalization; Discourses; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Feminism; Francophones; Grass roots movement; Heroism & heroes; Intersectionality; Justice; Law; Literary characters; Literary devices; Mass media images; Morality; Motion pictures; Narratives; Offenders; Oppression; Political activism; Political aspects; Political manifesto; Population decline; Public health; Reproductive rights; Social justice; Suffering; Trends; Varda, Agnes (1928-2019); Varda, Agnès; Victimization; Victims; Women; Womens health; Womens rights; World War II; France

In the spring of 1971, three years after the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 in France, 343 women put their names to a courageous manifesto announcing that they were criminals of a particularly gendered nature. The authors of Manifeste des 343 (Manifesto of the 343) comprised a large group of cultu...