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France and women 1789-1914 : gender, society and politics / James F. McMillan

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McMillan, James F., 1948-2010
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages)
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Contents
Defining womanhood: the legacy of the Enlightenment -- The rights of man and the rights of woman: women and the French Revolution -- Revolutionary aftermath: the reconstruction of the gender order -- 'Angels of the hearth'? Leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity -- Labouring women; work family and community in the classes popularieres -- Femmes nouvelles: feminists, socialists and republicans in the Romantic era -- Femininity: constructions, consequence, control -- Representations of the overviere: the discourse on female labour -- Reformulating the 'woman' question': from literary polemics to organised feminists -- A new Eve? Bourgeois women in the belle époque -- Gender at work: women workers and the sexual division of labour -- In search of citizenship: feminists and women's suffrage.
Summary
France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernisation and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s.
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0203248856 (electronic bk.)
9780203248850 (electronic bk.)
9780203020159
0203020154
9780415226028
0415226023
9780415226035
0415226031
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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