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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781594703321

Autore

Mansker A

Titolo

Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France [[electronic resource] /] / by A. Mansker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-31845-8

9786613318459

0-230-34819-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Classificazione

HIS013000HIS054000HIS037070SOC028000

Disciplina

305.420944/09034

305.42094409034

Soggetti

Social history

France—History

Sociology

History, Modern

Europe—History

Social History

History of France

Gender Studies

Modern History

European History

France Politics and government 1870-1940

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Content; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!" The New Woman and the Debate over Female Honor; 2 The Sexual Insult: Medicalized Views of Singleness during the Long Nineteenth Century; 3 Rethinking Honor in the Republican Family: Fin-de-Siècle Divorce Suits; 4 The Honor of a Name: Marital Status, Property, and the Patronymic; 5 The Feminist Politics of the Female Surplus: Constructing Citizenship through Singleness; 6 Sexual



Citizenship and the Political Culture of Shame in the Women's Movement

Conclusion: Giving the LieNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities.