ISBN:
9781845450946
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (360 p)
Series Statement:
Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections v.9
Parallel Title:
Print version Belle Epoque? A : Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
DDC:
305.42094409041
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Third Republic, known as the 'belle époque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new ""seventh art"" of cinema. This book explores all these fac
Description / Table of Contents:
A 'BELLE EPOQUE'?; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS; CHAPTER 1. NEW REPUBLIC, NEW WOMEN?; CHAPTER 2. 1890-1914: A 'BELLE EPOQUE' FOR FEMINISM?; CHAPTER 3. MARGUERITE DURAND AND LA FRONDE; CHAPTER 4. THE UNCOMPROMISING DOCTOR MADELEINE PELLETIER; CHAPTER 5. CLANS AND CHRONOLOGIES; PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?; CHAPTER 6. VÉLO-MÉTRO-AUTO: WOMEN'S MOBILITY IN BELLE EPOQUE PARIS; CHAPTER 7. POPULARISING NEW WOMEN IN BELLE EPOQUE ADVERTISING POSTERS; CHAPTER 8. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: LOÏE FULLER, DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 9. BECOMING WOMEN: CINEMA, GENDER AND TECHNOLOGYPART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE; CHAPTER 10. SPECTACLES OF THEMSELVES; CHAPTER 11. BEING A DANCER IN 1900; CHAPTER 12. VISIONS OF RECIPROCITY IN THE WORK OF CAMILLE CLAUDEL; PART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION; CHAPTER 13. FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN WOMEN'S NOVELS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER 14. DANIEL LESUEUR AND THE FEMINIST ROMANCE; CHAPTER 15. VIRGINAL PERVERSION/RADICAL SUBVERSION; CHAPTER 16. DECADENCE AND THE WOMAN WRITER; CHAPTER 17. SENSUAL DEVIATIONS AND VERBAL ABUSE; CHAPTER 18. PROLETARIAN WOMEN, PROLETARIAN WRITING
Description / Table of Contents:
PART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMENCHAPTER 19. COLONISER AND COLONISED IN HUBERTINE AUCLERT'S WRITINGS ON ALGERIA; CHAPTER 20. THE CHIVALROUS COLONISER; CHAPTER 21. MARCELLE TINAYRE'S NOTES D'UNE VOYAGEUSE EN TURQUIE; CONCLUSION; SELECT CHRONOLOGY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
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Description based upon print version of record
