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Title Confronting modernity in fin-de-siècle France : bodies, minds and gender / edited by Christopher E. Forth, Elinor Accampo
Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages)
Series Genders and sexualities in history
Genders and sexualities in history.
Contents Introduction. Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France / Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth -- pt. I. Gender, Citizenship, and Republicanism -- 1. Revising the Sexual Contract: Women's Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789-1944 / Charles Sowerwine -- 2. Is the 'Woman Question' Really the 'Man Problem'? / Karen Offen -- pt. II. Bodies, Minds, and Spirit -- 3. From aliene to degenere: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France / Matt T. Reed -- 4. Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Siecle France / Elizabeth A. Williams -- 5. Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Siecle France / James Smith Alien -- pt. III. Morality, Honor, and Masculinity -- 6. Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality / Steven C. Hause -- 7. Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honor in the Late Nineteenth Century / Rachel G. Fuchs -- 8. Shaming Men: Feminist Honor and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle Epoque France / Andrea Mansker -- 9. 'Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage': Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris / Michael L. Wilson -- pt. IV. Gender and the Dreyfus Affair -- 10. From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-Hero / Venita Datta -- 11. Two Salonnieres during the Dreyfus Affair: the Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp / Ruth Harris -- Conclusion / Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth
Summary "A reassessment of the Third Republic as the first long-term successful French experiment with a democratic republic. Born of violent revolution against church, monarchy, and aristocracy, it was fraught with contradictions between the universalism of human rights and the practical need to deny certain categories of people the rights of citizenship"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sex role -- Political aspects -- France -- History
Women's rights -- France -- History
Citizenship -- France -- History
Human rights -- France -- History
Republicanism -- France -- History
Democracy -- France -- History
Politics and culture -- France -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Citizenship
Democracy
Human rights
Politics and culture
Politics and government
Republicanism
Sex role -- Political aspects
Social conditions
Women's rights
Geschlechterrolle
Körper
Geistige Welt
Fin de siècle
Modernität
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051483
France -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051498
France -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87008022
Subject France
Frankreich
Frankrijk.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Forth, Christopher E.
Accampo, Elinor Ann.
ISBN 9780230246843
0230246842
128274285X
9781282742857
9781349306459
1349306452