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Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women’s Writing examines the most common types of Eating Disorders (EDs) - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa/bulimarexia, and binge eating disorder - as represented in contemporary French women’s literature. The primary corpus comprises 40 autobiographical (and very occasionally autofictional) texts complemented by ample reference, and sometimes challenge, to clinical, medically-researched based, or theoretical publications on EDs.

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‘Lucille Cairns’s monograph is set to become an indispensable read for anyone interested in contemporary French Studies, irrespective of field of specialization. Her multi- and interdisciplinary methodological approach (p.16) is second to none in its richness, precision, and meticulousness. The book manages the almost impossible feat of speaking to a variety of audiences: both the highly informed, such as the medical community or literary scholars, and novices who are not (yet) knowledgeable about the nosology and aetiology of eating disorders (ED).’ Sandra Daroczi, Modern Language Review

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Lucille Cairns was a Professor of French at the University of Durham, and author of numerous articles and chapters on French women’s writing and filmmaking, male and female homosexuality in French literature and film, and Franco-Jewish writing, as well as of six sole-authored monographs.

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