Extraordinary, Ordinary Women

Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris

Kelly Rogers

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.

University Press of America

Pages: 124 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6227-7 • Hardback • December 2013 • $62.00 • (£42.95)

978-0-7618-6228-4 • eBook • December 2013 • $58.50 • (£39.95)

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Foreign Language Study / French, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / Human Geography, Social Science / Women's Studies

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women

Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris

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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.

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University Press of America

Pages: 124 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6227-7 • Hardback • December 2013 • $62.00 • (£42.95)

978-0-7618-6228-4 • eBook • December 2013 • $58.50 • (£39.95)

Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Foreign Language Study / French, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / Human Geography, Social Science / Women's Studies

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

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

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women

Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris

Kelly Rogers

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women

Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris

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