The Center of Excellence will host Professor Jennifer Tamas on October 5 from 5:30pm-6:30pm for a lecture in Hagerty Hall 180. This event is open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?": Retracing the Art of Consent in Beauty and the Beast
In this presentation, Jennifer Tamas (Rutgers University) will show how the "male gaze" prevailed in establishing the French classics and their reception. By selecting authors deemed essential to our literary heritage and by erasing the works of women writers, the patriarchal gaze undervalued female agency in well-known works of fiction such as Andromaque, La Princesse de Clèves, or Little Red Riding Hood.
Professor Tamas's study also unveils women's resistance at a time when galanterie was at once a means of seduction and an ideal shaped by both men and women. Surprisingly, heroines of the Grand Siècle can empower us with accounts of their struggle and help us reclaim an undervalued literary matrimoine.
Jennifer Tamas is Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University. She is the author of Le Silence trahi. Racine ou la déclaration tragique, (Genève, Droz, 2018) and Au NON des femmes. Libérer nos classiques du regard masculin (Paris, Seuil, 2023).
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There is a Zoom webinar option available for those who cannot attend in person. Register here.
If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Matt Lang at lang.650@osu.edu. Requests made by September 21, 2023 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the University will make every effort to meet requests made after that.
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