Confronting modernity in fin-de-siècle France
Subtitle: bodies, minds, and gender
By: edited by Christopher E. Forth, Elinor Accampo.
Contributors: Forth, Christopher E.; Accampo, Elinor Ann.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230220997
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
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth; title: pt. 1. Gender, citizenship, and republicanism; title: Revising the sexual contract : women's citizenship and republicanism in France, 1789-1944 / Charles Sowerwine; title: "Is the woman question really the man problem?" / Karen Offen; title: pt. 2. Bodies, minds, and spirit; title: From aliéné to dégénéré : moral agency and the psychiatric imagination in nineteenth-century France / Matt Reed; title: Gastronomy and the diagnosis of anorexia in fin-de-siècle France / Elizabeth A. Williams; title: Papus the misogynist : honor, gender, and the occult in fin-de-siècle France / James Smith Allen; title: pt. 3. Morality, honor, and masculinity; title: Social control in late nineteenth-century France : Protestant campaigns for strict public morality / Steven C. Hause; title: Paternity, progeny, and property : family honor in the late nineteenth century / Rachel G. Fuchs; title: Shaming men : feminist honor and the sexual double standard in Belle Époque France / Andrea Mansker; title: Capped with hope, clad in youth, shod in courage : masculinity and marginality in fin-de-siècle Paris / Michael L. Wilson; title: pt. 4. Gender and the Dreyfus Affair; title: From Devil's Island to the pantheon : Alfred Dreyfus, the anti-hero / Venita Datta; title: Two salonnières during the Dreyfus Affair : the Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp / Ruth Harris.