13. From Novels to Women's Histories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. lntrodudion 1
5. 1. A Daughter of the Republic 20
6. 2. Illness and Phantom Lovers 31
7. 3. "To Rediscover a Reason to Live" 44
8. 4. Fellow Traveling and Its Discontents 56
9. 5. Diary of Resistance, Diary of Collaboration 67
10. 6. Writing Underground 83
11. 7. Uses of the Past 100
12. 8. The Liberation of Paris and the End of the War 112
13. 9. Story of Two Women: Edith Thomas and Dominique Aury 123
14. 10. Feminine Humanism versus Existentialism 138
15. 11. The Compromised Witness: Leaving the Communist Party 150
16. 12. The Compromised Witness: The Quarrel with Jean Paulhan 161
17. 13. From Novels to Women's Histories 177
18. 14. Wartime Truths: La Question and Algeria; Rosse 190
19. 15. Endings 201
20. Notes 211
21. Index 233