Blessed motherhood, bitter fruit
Subtitle: Nelly Roussel and the politics of female pain in Third Republic France
By: Elinor Accampo.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Roussel, Nelly, 1878-1922; Birth control -- France -- Biography; Feminists -- France -- Biography; Women social reformers -- France -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversion experiences; title: Mother and missionary: the ideological foundations of an unorthodox feminism; title: The making and marketing of a spectacular apostle; title: The public and private politics of female self-sacrifice: audience reception; title: Pathologies and persecutions; title: The great war: pacifism, censorship, and the disease of a "weary, wounded, heart"; title: Last battles: words of combat, hope, and pain.