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Author Mesch, Rachel

Title Having it all in the Belle Epoque : how French women's magazines invented the modern woman / Rachel Mesch
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages)
Contents Introduction : Femina, La vie heureuse and the invention of the femme moderne -- Chères lectrices : Cinderella powder, poet queens and the woman reader -- Beyond the bluestocking : images of work-life balance in the Belle Epoque -- The 'oriental' authoress : Myriam Harry and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus -- The writer writes back -- A new man for the new woman? : Belle Epoque literary feminism and the French marriage plot -- Jean Lorrain's women's magazine : Emma Bovary meets celebrity culture -- A Belle Epoque media storm : Marcelle Tinayre and the Legion of Honor -- Conclusion : imagining the académicienne
Summary At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having it All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to the early 1900s in France. The first two photographic magazines aimed at women, Femina and La Vie Heureuse created a female role model who could balance age-old convention with new equalities. Often referred to simply as the ""modern woman, "" this captivating figure embodied the hopes and dreams as well as the most pressing internal conflicts of large numbers of French wom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Women's periodicals, French -- France -- History -- 20th century
French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Feminist literature -- France -- History and criticism
Feminism -- France -- History -- 20th century
Femininity in literature.
Women in literature.
Femininity in art.
Women in art.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- French.
Femininity in art
Femininity in literature
Feminism
Feminist literature
French literature -- Women authors
Women in art
Women in literature
Women's periodicals, French
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013013863
ISBN 9780804787130
0804787131
0804784248
9780804784245