Dans une perspective innovante et interdisciplinaire (ethique, mythocritique, sociocritique, psychanalyse, theories du genre), des figures mythiques feminines et autres, revelatrices de notre regard sur le monde, sont ici analysees sous les aspects varies de leurs transformations dans la litterature, le cinema et a travers des evenements historiques de ce dernier siecle. Les treize auteures des essais qui composent ce volume, venues de dix pays et de quatre continents, presentent la maniere dont les mythes grecs, bibliques, africains – parfois sources de nouveaux mythes nes de conflits ou traumatismes modernes – permettent de rendre visibles les paradigmes de pensee qui conditionnent les rapports humains, surtout la perception du corps encore sous l’emprise d’un imaginaire collectif soumis a la domination patriarcale.

Within an innovative and interdisciplinary framework including ethics, myth criticism, sociocriticism, psychoanalysis and gender theories, mythical figures, feminine and others that reveal the ways we perceive the world, are being analyzed in light of the various aspects pertaining to their transformations through the literature, cinema and historical events of this past century. The contributors of the thirteen essays that comprise the present volume, originating from ten countries and four continents, elaborate the manner in which Greek, Biblical and African myths, occasionally generating new myths borne out of contemporary conflicts or traumas – unveil the belief systems that define human relationships, in particular the perception of the body, still subject to a collective imaginary conditioned by the patriarchal supremacy.