Contemporary French Cultures and Societies

Contents: Frédéric Royall: Introduction - Louis Chauvel (Translated by Frédéric Royall): A New French Society? The Debate on Social Change - Peter Fysh: Developments in French Party Politics - Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan: The French Economy in the Throes of Increased Openness - Gavin Bowd: The End of the Affair? Intellectuals in Contemporary France - Sarah Waters: Social Movements and Social Exclusion in the New France - Roger Duclaud-Williams: The Politics and Policy of Education in France - David Thompson: French Euroscepticism in the 1990s - Martin Chappell: The Press and the State - Mairéad Seery: Tout finit par des chansons? Developments in French Popular Music - Mary Noonan: Writing for the Contemporary French Stage: The Reconciliation of Body and Word - Laurent Marie: The French Cinema Today - Maeve Conrick: The Status of the French Language in Quebec and Canada: Contemporary Issues and Developments - Margaret Gibbon: Un homme sur deux est une femme: Gender and Language Reform in Francophone Countries - Willy Clijsters: Motivating Learners of French in Flanders - Bríd ní Chonaill: The Case of Regional and Minority Languages in France - Mina Aït'MBark: Francophone Literatures from the Maghreb - Christine O'Dowd-Smyth: Developments in Diasporic North African Literature of French Expression: The 'Indeterminacy of Diasporic Identity' of the Second Generation of Immigration - Catherine Khordoc: Towards a Transcultural Literary Tradition in Quebec - Maeve McCusker: The Explosion of Utterance: Locating Recent Caribbean Writing in French - Francesca Counihan: Women's Writing in Contemporary France.

The Editor: Frédéric Royall is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Limerick (Ireland). He has published extensively in the area of French and European social movements.