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L'Identite de genre dans les  uvres de George Sand et Colette

This study is the first to compare the works of George Sand and Colette, two writers who challenged the codes of French society during the long nineteenth century. Beyond the similarities between their “scandalous” lives, they represented sex, gender and sexuality in a transgressive way when “masculinity”, “femininity” and heterosexuality were seen as naturally determined by biology. The authors imagined pioneer characters whose non-conformist gender identity disclosed an early perception that gender is performed and exists on a large scale of psycho-sexual positions. The notions of gender, sexuality, transvestism and the links between gender and literary genres are also analysed.