Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel (2015)
Book
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.

Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2015). Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies. French Studies, 69(4), 494-508. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knv150

This article examines two twenty-first-century autobiographical accounts of the intense — and ultimately life-threatening — mental and bodily dis-ease endured by two young French women from adolescence into early adulthood. Annick Loupias's La Tortue... Read More about Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies.

Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages (2015)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2015). Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages. In S. Hand, & S. T. Katz (Eds.), Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 (139-155). New York University Press

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France... Read More about Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages.

Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium (2014)
Book
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.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L., & Fouz-Hernandez, S. (2014). Introduction. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz-Hernandez (Eds.), Rethinking 'identities' : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (1-18). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

This volume sets out to reimagine and extend the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts which examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, th... Read More about Introduction.

Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz Hernández (Eds.), Rethinking ‘identities’ : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (21-42). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

In this essay, I examine contemporary renegotiations of feminism that constitute a challenge not only for self-defined feminists, but also for mainstream interpretive communities, and that in fact have the potential for a quasi-universal impact. I do... Read More about Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists.

Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2014). Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction. Modern and Contemporary France, 22(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2013.867151

This article analyses literary mediations of francophone Jewish attitudes towards Israel, and particularly towards the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Its primary corpus comprises two female-authored novels published during the Second Intifada: Olivia... Read More about Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction.

Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others" (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others". In M. Rossello, & S. Dasgupta (Eds.), What's queer about Europe? : productive encounters and re-enchanting paradigms (91-113). Fordham University Press

Vichy, Jews, Enfants cachés: French Women Writers Look Back (2013)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2013). Vichy, Jews, Enfants cachés: French Women Writers Look Back. In A. Damlé, & G. Rye (Eds.), Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France (47-59). University of Wales Press

Introduction (2013)
Journal Article
Cairns, L., & Reiter, A. (2013). Introduction. Jewish Culture and History, 14(2-3), 65-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169x.2013.805901

Une année si ordinaire (2004) d’Esther Orner (2013)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2013). Une année si ordinaire (2004) d’Esther Orner

Calibrating Queer in the work of Didier Eribon. (2012)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2012). Calibrating Queer in the work of Didier Eribon. French Cultural Studies, 23(2), 104-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155812436530

The first aim of this article is to provide an overview of Didier Eribon’s unique input to lesbian and gay politics and studies in France. The second aim is to examine the contours of his engagement with and critique of queer, bearing in mind that qu... Read More about Calibrating Queer in the work of Didier Eribon..

Post-War Jewish Women's Writing in French. (2011)
Book
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..

'La Mémoire de la Shoah': the Contentious Case of Soazig Aaron's 'Le Non de Klara'. (2010)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2010). 'La Mémoire de la Shoah': the Contentious Case of Soazig Aaron's 'Le Non de Klara'. French Studies, 64(4), 438-450. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knq104

Soazig Aaron's Le Non de Klara (2002) is a prize-winning novel about an Auschwitz survivor and has been greatly lauded, by Jorge Semprún among others. This article attempts to convey the novel's status as a literary artefact of high aesthetic quality... Read More about 'La Mémoire de la Shoah': the Contentious Case of Soazig Aaron's 'Le Non de Klara'..

Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema (2006)
Book
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.

Le Phallus lesbien (bis): Lesbo-Erotic French Writing of the Late 1990s (2002)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2002). Le Phallus lesbien (bis): Lesbo-Erotic French Writing of the Late 1990s. In M. Hutton (Ed.), French fiction in the 1990s (89-101). Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham

Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature (2002)
Book
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)
Book
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.