Description |
xiv, 286 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Pt. I. (1789-1815) Redefining women's sphere -- 1. Defining womanhood: the legacy of the Enlightenment -- 2. The rights of man and the rights of woman: women and the French Revolution -- 3. Revolutionary aftermath: the reconstruction of the gender order -- Pt. II. (1815-50) Public man, private woman? -- 4. 'Angels of the hearth'? leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity -- 5. Labouring women: work, family and community in the classes populaires -- 6. Femmes nouvelles: feminists, socialists and republicans in the Romantic era -- Pt. III. (1850-80) Discourses on 'woman' -- 7. Femininity: constructions, consequence, control -- 8. Representations of the ouvriere: the discourse on female labour -- 9. Reformulating the 'woman question': from literary polemics to organised feminism -- Pt. IV. (1880-1914) Gender relations in crisis? -- 10. A new Eve? bourgeois women in the belle epoque -- 11. Gender at work: women workers and the sexual division of labour |
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12. In search of citizenship: feminists and women's suffrage -- Epilogue: France and feminism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-279) and index |
Subject |
Women -- France -- History.
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Women -- France -- Social conditions.
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LC no. |
99042213 |
ISBN |
0415226031 |
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0415226023 |
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