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Confronting modernity in fin-de-siècle France : bodies, minds and gender
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"A reassessment of the Third Republic as the first long-term successful French experiment with a democratic republic. Born of violent revolution against church, monarchy, and aristocracy, it was fr...
"A reassessment of the Third Republic as the first long-term successful French experiment with a democratic republic. Born of violent revolution against church, monarchy, and aristocracy, it was fraught with contradictions between the universalism of human rights and the practical need to deny certain categories of people the rights of citizenship"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- edited by Christopher E. Forth, Elinor Accampo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 265 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780230220997, 1349306452, 9786612742859, 128274285X, 0230246842, 0230220991
- OCLC
- ocn608024572, ocn463854702
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France / Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth -- pt. I. Gender, Citizenship, and Republicanism -- 1. Revising the Sexual Contract: Women's Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789-1944 / Charles Sowerwine -- 2. Is the 'Woman Question' Really the 'Man Problem'? / Karen Offen -- pt. II. Bodies, Minds, and Spirit -- 3. From aliene to degenere: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France / Matt T. Reed -- 4. Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Siecle France / Elizabeth A. Williams -- 5. Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Siecle France / James Smith Alien -- pt. III. Morality, Honor, and Masculinity -- 6. Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality / Steven C. Hause -- 7. Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honor in the Late Nineteenth Century / Rachel G. Fuchs -- 8. Shaming Men: Feminist Honor and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle Epoque France / Andrea Mansker -- 9. 'Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage': Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris / Michael L. Wilson -- pt. IV. Gender and the Dreyfus Affair -- 10. From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-Hero / Venita Datta -- 11. Two Salonnieres during the Dreyfus Affair: the Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp / Ruth Harris -- Conclusion / Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth
Subjects
- Sex role -- Political aspects -- France -- History.
- Women's rights -- France -- History.
- Citizenship -- France -- History.
- Human rights -- France -- History.
- Republicanism -- France -- History.
- Democracy -- France -- History.
- Politics and culture -- France -- History.
- France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940.
- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.