Voix de Femmes is a literary reader of contemporary French and francophone women writers who shed light on women's circumstances with a great variety of styles and points of view. Includes works by Germaine de Sta%l, Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Elisabeth Badinter, Fran_oise Parturier, Annie Leclerc, Colette, Nathalie Sarraute, George Sand, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Christiane Rochefort, Marie Cardinal, Fran_oise Mallet-Joris, Chantal Chawaf, and Annie Ernaux. Also featured are texts by French-speaking women outside of France including Anne H, bert, Antonine Maillet and Simone Schwarz-Bart. Learning aids that accompany the text include introductions to each author, on-page vocabulary translation, a French-English glossary, and an extensive bibliography