Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023): Is a woman a reader like any other ?
Edited by Maxime Decout and Estelle Mouton-Rovira
While women readers have long been associated, on the one hand, with a form of vulnerability, linked to the topos of the dangers of reading, and on the other with an eroticised vision of reading, it has to be said that the contemporary period is working to change these images. The development of feminist theories and gender studies, and the pragmatic inflection of reception theories are all new critical legacies that are changing the literary representation of women and, a fortiori, of women readers. Such figures enable us to think about reading practices through the prism of gender. The aim is to ask whether the female reader is a reader like any other, in order to explore the ways in which literature creates its own critical knowledge of gender.
