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

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

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 Ma?tresse dAnglais: Working in France
Chapter VIII: Mommy or Maman? Tension in Child-Rearing
Chapter IX: Stars Versus Stripes: Nationality in Question
Chapter X: Imposters Paradise: Being and Becoming French
Conclusion: Being Julia Boit
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