Foreword

Portraits of Women : Working with Clichés

Christine Texier-Vandamme, « A Gaze, a Voice and a Body of One's Own: Conrad's 'The Return' and Chéreau's Gabrielle » ;
Brygida Pudelko, « Female Portrayals in Conrad's Under Western Eyes and Turgenev's On the Eve and Virgin Soil » ;
Yannick Le Boulicaut, « Mrs Travers : a Female Harlequin ? » ;
Ludmilla Voitkovska, « Drawn into Liminal Space: Conrad's Women in Love » ;
Katherine Isobel Baxter, « Chance, Gender and Laughter » ;
Clémence Bourguignon, « Les fiancées de Kurtz ou l’Harmonie remise en question » ;
Michel Arouimi, « Les failles du Mythe : au-delà du féminin ».

Challenging Genders

Jeremy Hawthorn, « Feminine ships, feminized men, and masculine women: the displaced challenge to gender binaries in Joseph Conrad’s fiction » ;
Nathalie Martinière, « "Women [...] are out of it – should be out of it": giving birth in Conrad’s fiction » ;

The Linguistics of Gender

Véronique Pauly, « Lines of Influence and Lines of Distance: Overdetermination and Incompleteness in Victory » ;
Gail Fincham, « Shame, Guilt and Patriarchy: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace ».

Patriarchy & Imperialism

Myrtle Hooper, « Freya’s Arms » ;
Christophe Robin, « The Traces of the Feminine in Lord Jim ».

Comptes-rendus
The Conrad Conference at the Polish Library in Paris 12-23 June 2007 Conference in Crakow September 22-24, 2007