In this volume of L'Époque Conradienne are published most of the papers presented during the 2006 Limoges Conference entitled " Femininity, a privilege – not feminism, an attitude "*. The "feminine" in Joseph Conrad's fictions: from ideology to a poetics of heterogeneity. Colleagues from France, Britain, Poland, Norway, South Africa and Canada offered new light on Conrad's position on the question of the feminine – a question which took a new turn at the beginning of the 20th century, when Modernism modified the perception of gender divisions.A majority of articles deal with the question of clichés and stereotypes and the way Conrad allows the emergence of new representations of gendered identities and of a sexualized worldview – characteristics not often associated with Conrad's fiction. Several also tackle the question of the relationship between patriarchy and imperialism: does his critical approach to imperialism address or obliterate the question of patriarchy?Finally, all tend to prove that there is definitely a place for feminist criticism and the question of feminine writing in Conradian studies – pointing out that our reading of Conrad's fiction is modified if we scrutinize "femininity" (the "privilege") with the tools of the "attitude", "feminism". Such approaches pave the way for a further exploration of that field.* Chance, Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1986, p. 127