Article on sexual contract and mariage blanc. Abstract: Reading Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's biography as exemplifying eighteenth-century marriage based on women's limited legal recourse within the marriage contract, I argue that the author offers women an empowering alternative to the sexual contract in her fiction, a mariage blanc based on friendship.

This article reviews the book "The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual - and the Modern Home Began," by Joan DeJean and published in 2009.

This article reviews the book "Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France," by John C. O'Neal, published in 2002.

This article reviews the book "Louder Than Words: Ways of Seeing Women Workers in Eighteenth-Century France," by Geraldine Sheridan and published in 2009.

This article reviews the book "Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France," by Mary Trouille and published in 2009.

This article reviews the book "Les Lettres sur la sympathie (1798) de Sophie de Grouchy: philosophie morale et réforme sociale," edited by Marc André Bernier and Deidre Dawson and published in 2010.

Article on a Pickering & Chatto publication titled, "Translations and Continuations" as part of its series "Chawton House Library: Women's Novels. The series presents not only translations from the French but also continuations to one of the French texts.

This article reviews the book "The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches," edited by Jay M. Smith and published in 2006.

This article reviews the book "Sex Education in Eighteenth-Century France," a book edited by Shane Agin and published in 2011.

Article discussing a newly discovered 1722 letter by fan- and miniature painter Louis Goupy (1675-1747).

Article on Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's original "Abeille" and gender in early modern journalism.

Book chapter on Frances Brooke's "History of Emily Montague" and the epistolarity at the transatlantic intersection of public and private.

Article on epistolary silence in Françoise de Graffigny's 'Lettres d'une Péruvienne.'

This book review discusses 'The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France,' by Richard Wrigley and published in 2002.

This article reviews the book "The Enlightenment of Age: Women, Letters, and Growing Old in Eighteenth-Century France," by Joan Hinde Stewart and published in 2010.

This article reviews the book "From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris: Gender, Economy, and Law," by Janine M. Lanza published in 2007.

This article reviews the book "The Fiction of Enlightenment. Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century," by Heidi Bostic and published in 2010.

This article reviews the book "Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society," by Morag Martin and published in 2009.

This article reviews the book "Between the Queen and the Cabby: Olympe de Gouges's Rights of Woman," by John R. Cole published in 2011.

This book is a collection of poetry in Italian and translated into French and English.

Article on Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's 1768 letter to the Mercure de France and the reclaiming of a woman writer's literary legacy.

This study offers a partial reduplication of a 2006 study by Williams, which focused primarily on the analysis of the quality of translation produced by online software, namely Yahoo!® Babelfish, Freetranslation.com, and Google Translate. Since the data for the study by Williams were collected in 2004 and the data for present study in 2012, this gives a lapse of eight years for a diachronic analysis of the differences in quality of the translations provided by these online services. At the time of the 2006 study by Williams, all three services used a rule-based translation system, but, in October 2007, however, Google Translate switched to a system that is entirely statistical in nature. Thus, the present study is also able to examine the differences in quality between contemporary statistical and rule-based approaches to machine translation.

La Malinche is one of the most controversial figures in Mexican and Chicano literature. The historical facts about her life before and after the Spanish Conquest are largely speculative. What is reliably known is that she had a significant role as translator, which developed into something of mythic proportions. The ideological appropriation of her image by three authors, Octavio Paz, Laura Esquivel and Cherríe Moraga, are explored in this thesis. The full extent of the proposed rendition of La Malinche by Octavio Paz is the basis of the second chapter. The conclusion drawn by Paz, in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) is that La Malinche is what he calls la chingada [the raped/violated one] and proposes that all women are always open to conquest, sexually and otherwise. Laura Esquivel's novel Malinche (2006) is a re-interpretation that focuses on the tongue as the source of power and language as the ultimate source of autonomy for La Malinche. This aspect of La Malinche and the contrast of Paz's understanding are the basis of the third chapter of this thesis. Cherríe Moraga, in Loving in the War Years (1983), proposes that if women are to be traitors, it is not each other that …

This study examines the theatrical representation of the stealing of children during the last dictatorships in Spain and in Argentina in Laila Ripoll's Los niños perdidos and Patricia Suárez's Astianacte: una máscara del amor under the lenses of the concepts of trauma, myth and memory. Following the theories suggested by Freud, Adorno, Whitehead, Reyes Mate and others, the first chapter discusses the representation of the psychological traumas left by the dictatorial practices left not only on the minds of individuals but also on both nations as whole entities. While Ripoll invites her audience to reflect upon the consequences of the Spanish Civil War and franquism, Patricia Suárez urges her spectators to doubt about their own identity if they were born during the last dictatorship in Argentina. In chapter two, the concepts advanced by Barthes, Reig Tapia and Moreno-Nuño help explore the ways in which the playwrights condemn the legitimizing myths that gave birth to these dictatorial regimes. Both authors subvert these fictional stories, mainly by the use of sarcasm and humor. By means of the concepts of memory supported by Benjamin, Todorov, Nora and Juliá, the third chapter examines the need to let the traditionally silenced voices tell their version …