Extraordinary, Ordinary Women: Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris

by Kelly Rogers

Overview

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris. Pulling back the veil of idealism and romanticism shrouding the women’s migrant lives, the book examines the very real pitfalls and triumphs of life after the “happily ever after.” Extraordinary, Ordinary Women examines the consequences of immigration, biculturalism, and assimilation on the individual identities of modern expatriate women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761862284
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	124
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kelly Rogers has written for The Huffington Post, LaJeunePolitique.com, and the French Embassy’s press office in Washington, D.C. She has also coordinated projects for France’s public television channel France 3. Rogers currently teaches French language courses at the high school and undergraduate levels.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chasing Sabrina
Chapter I: Who Do You Think You Are? Questions of Identity
Chapter II: Defining an “American” Paris
Chapter III: The Research: Meeting Americans in Paris
Chapter IV: The Parable of the Letter Jacket
Chapter V: Modes of Exodus: Transplantation, Expatriation, Exile
Chapter VI: The Problematic Second Person: Learning and Speaking French
Chapter VII: Madame la Maîtresse d’Anglais: Working in France
Chapter VIII: Mommy or Maman? Tension in Child-Rearing
Chapter IX: Stars Versus Stripes: Nationality in Question
Chapter X: Imposter’s Paradise: “Being” and “Becoming” French
Conclusion: Being Julia Boit
Bibliography