East Gallery, Buell Hall
Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Domna Stanton in conversation with Madeleine Dobie
Domna Stanton discusses her new book that examines shifting notions of gender in 17th-century France and probes the specifics of conformity and resistance to gender norms from a feminist perspective. Her conversation with Madeleine Dobie will also expand to consider differing French and American perspectives on gender studies in the present day.Domna Stanton is Distinguished Professor of French at the Graduate Center, CUNY. A specialist of 17th-century French literature and culture, her research areas include women writers, feminist and critical theory, and human rights. She is now writing the 17th-century section of a multi-authored Les femmes en littérature (Gallimard 2017).
Madeleine Dobie is Associate Professor of French at Columbia.
