'L'âge dangereux': Representations of the Middle-aged Woman in Contemporary French and Francophone Culture

我的项目涉及探索中年妇女在当代法国和法语国家文化中的代表性，涵盖广泛的主要文本和主题，应用英美关于老龄化和年龄歧视的理论，并与认知文学理论，女权主义理论和社会学进行对话。它将分析这些文本是否以及如何提供一个现代的回应西蒙娜·德·波伏娃的女性中年的负面意见，挑战退化的，无形的，后产妇妇女的陈规定型观念，并提出更积极的，不可预测的妇女在中年的模式，从而促进社会态度的演变。

My project involves exploring representations of middle-aged women in contemporary French and Francophone culture across a broad range of primary texts and themes, applying Anglo-American theories on ageing and ageism and creating a dialogue with cognitive literary theory, feminist theory and sociology. It will analyse if and how these texts provide a modern-day response to Simone de Beauvoir's negative opinion of female midlife by challenging stereotypical notions of the degendered, invisible, post-maternal woman and by presenting more positive, unpredictable models of women in middle age, thereby contributing to the evolution of societal attitudes.