Calling Yourself a Woman: Marguerite Yourcenar and Colette

Mary Lydon is Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Perpetuum Mobile: A Study in the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor (Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1980), and of a forthcoming volume of essays on twentieth-century French literature from a feminist, psychoanalytic, and deconstructionist perspective.