Blessed motherhood, bitter fruit : Nelly Roussel and the politics of female pain in Third Republic France /
Accampo, Elinor Ann.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.
Conversion experiences -- Mother and missionary: the ideological foundations of an unorthodox feminism -- The making and marketing of a spectacular apostle -- The public and private politics of female self-sacrifice: audience reception -- Pathologies and persecutions -- The Great War: pacifism, censorship, and the disease of a "weary, wounded heart" -- Last battles: words of combat, hope, and pain.
Roussel, Nelly, 1878-1922.
Birth control
Feminists
Women social reformers