Dr. Maria Tomlinson's book, From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French, published with Liverpool University Press on the 1st June 2021, examines the representation of the female fertility cycle in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French women’s writing. It focuses on menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause whilst also incorporating experiences such as miscarriage and abortion. Her study argues that contemporary women’s writing has continued the challenge against normative perceptions of the body that was originally launched by the second-wave feminists, whilst also taking a more nuanced, contextual and intersectional approach to corporeal experience. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach of this book is informed not only by critics of the second-wave feminist movement but also by sociological studies which consider how women’s bodily experiences are shaped by socio-cultural context.
More details can be found here: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54498/
The author wishes to thank everyone in the WIF community who supported her from her PhD until the publication of this book.
