Confronting modernity in fin-de-siècle France : bodies, minds and gender /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
|
Colección: | Genders and sexualities in history.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.