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Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France C. Forth

Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France By C. Forth

Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France by C. Forth


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The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.

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Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender by C. Forth

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.

About C. Forth

ELINOR ACCAMPO Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USA JAMES SMITH ALLEN Professor of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA VENITA DATTA Professor of French, Wellesley College, USA CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH Howard Professor of Humanities and Western Civilization, the University of Kansas, USA RACHEL G. FUCHS Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University, USA RUTH HARRIS Fellow and Tutor, New College, University of Oxford, UK STEVEN C. HAUSE Senior Scholar in the Humanities and Co-Director of European Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, USA ANDREA MANSKER Assistant Professor of History, the University of the South, Tennessee, USA KAREN OFFEN Senior Scholar, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, USA MATT REED Independant historian and Director of Analysis and Partnerships with the Aga Khan Development Network, London, UK CHARLES SOWERWINE Professorial Fellow in History, the University of Melbourne, Australia ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMS Professor of History, Oklahoma State University, USA MICHAEL L. WILSON Associate Professor of History and Humanities, the University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction; E.Accampo & C.E.Forth PART I: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP AND REPUBLICANISM Revising the Sexual Contract: Women's Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789-1944; C.Sowerwine Is the 'Woman Question' Really the 'Man Problem'?; K.Offen PART II: BODIES, MINDS AND SPIRIT From aliene to degenere: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France; M.Reed Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Siecle France; E.A.Williams Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Siecle France; J.Smith Allen PART III: MORALITY, HONOUR AND MASCULINITY Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality; S.C.Hause Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honour in the Late Nineteenth Century; R.G.Fuchs Shaming Men: Feminist Honour and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle Epoque France; A.Mansker 'Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage': Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris; M. L.Wilson PART IV: GENDER AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-hero; V.Datta Two Salonnieres during the Dreyfus Affair: The Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp; R.Harris Conclusion; E.Accampo & C.E.Forth

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NPB9780230220997
9780230220997
0230220991
Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender by C. Forth
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Palgrave Macmillan
2009-11-27
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