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Author McMillan, James F., 1948-

Title France and women, 1789-1914 : gender, society and politics / James F. McMillan
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

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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
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.
Women -- France -- Social conditions.
LC no. 99042213
ISBN 0415226031
0415226023