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Confronting modernity in fin-de-siecle France Bodies, minds and gender /

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of...

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Group Author: Forth, Christopher E.; Accampo, Elinor.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Genders and sexualities in history
Subjects:
Sex role > Political aspects > History > 20th century > France.
Women's rights > History > 20th century > France.
European history.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
Social & cultural history.
Gender studies, gender groups.
History.
France > Social conditions > 20th century.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230246843
Summary: The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 280 p.
ISBN: 9780230220997
9780230246843 :
0230246842 :
CLC: D756.586.8
Contents: Notes on Contributors Introduction-- E.Accampo& C.E.Forth PART I: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP AND REPUBLICANISM Revising the Sexual Contract: Women's Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789-1944-- C.Sowerwine Is the 'Woman Question' Really the 'Man Problem'?-- K.Offen PART II: BODIES, MINDS AND SPIRIT From aliene to degenere: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France-- M.Reed Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Siecle France-- E.A.Williams Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Siecle France-- J.Smith Allen PART III: MORALITY, HONOUR AND MASCULINITY Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality-- S.C.Hause Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honour in the Late Nineteenth Century-- R.G.Fuchs Shaming Men: Feminist Honour and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle Aepoque France-- A.Mansker 'Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage': Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris-- M. L.Wilson PART IV: GENDER AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-hero-- V.Datta Two Salonnieres during the Dreyfus Affair: The Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp-- R.Harris Conclusion-- E.Accampo& C.E.Forth.

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