Colette's republic
Subtitle: work, gender, and popular culture in France, 1870-1914
By: Patricia A. Tilburg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781845455712
Subjects: Popular culture -- France -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- France -- History -- 20th century; Secularism -- France -- History -- 19th century; Secularism -- France -- History -- 20th century; Education -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century; Education -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century; Sex role -- France -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- France -- History -- 20th century; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "There are no foolish métiers" : work, class, and secular girls' education; title: "A healthy soul in a healthy body" : physical and moral education in the third Republic; title: Claudine in Paris : the Republican school in memory and fiction; title: Earning her bread : métier, performance, and female honor, 1906/1913; title: "The triumph of the flesh" : women, physical culture, and the nude in the French music hall, 1900-1914; title: "The people's muse" : pantomime, social art, and the vie intérieure.