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The Hysteric's Revenge : French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle /

"This book argues, however, that the fear of sexual abandon--though real--veiled an even more insidious fear: that women might be capable of intellectual equality with men and thus pose a threat to the most basic structures of French patriarchal society. In demonstrating the pervasiveness of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mesch, Rachel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literary science and the female subject : the brains behind Emile Zola's Nana
  • Memoirs of the Fille Publique
  • Virility and the intellectual woman : can a woman be a naturalist?
  • Can a woman be a decadent? : Rachilde, gender and the male body
  • The right to pleasure : sex and the sentimental novel.