Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel (2015)
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Cairns, L. (2015). Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel. Liverpool University Press

This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the country nonetheless forms a central point of affect.... Read More about Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel.

Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium (2014)
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Cairns, L., & Fouz Hernández, S. (Eds.). (2014). Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a su... Read More about Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium.

Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French. (2011)
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Cairns, L. (2011). Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French. Legenda

How have French Jewish women reacted to the great traumas of the last century - the Holocaust, North African decolonization and the resulting migration of African Jews to France, the Arab-Israeli crisis and the aftermath of 9/11? Cairns's major new v... Read More about Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French..

Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema (2006)
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Cairns, L. (2006). Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema. Edinburgh University Press

This is a study of lesbian desire in French and Francophone films. This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in Fr... Read More about Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema.

Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature (2002)
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Cairns, L. (2002). Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature. Edwin Mellen Press

The focus of this work has been almost exclusively on deterosexual women, albeit not necessarily constructed as in the first instance sexual beings. Cairn's study focuses on realist texts that appeared after 1968. The importance of that date as a cul... Read More about Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature.

Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France (2002)
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Cairns, L. (Ed.). (2002). Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France. Peter Lang

This volume of essays originated in but is not restricted to the proceedings of the ‘Gay Cultures in France’ conference held at the University of Stirling in April 1999. While the focus is clearly on French theory and experience, the first section of... Read More about Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France.