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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822763503321

Autore

McMillan James F. <1948-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-58957-3

0-203-24885-6

1-134-58958-1

1-280-33304-9

0-203-02015-4

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 286 p

Disciplina

305.4/0944

Soggetti

Women - France - History

Women - France - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

part PART 1 (1789–1815) Redefining women’s sphere -- chapter 1 Defining womanhood -- The legacy of the Enlightenment -- chapter 2 The rights of man and the rights of woman -- Women and the French Revolution -- chapter 3 Revolutionary aftermath -- The reconstruction of the gender order -- part Part II (1815–50) Public man, private woman? -- chapter 4 ‘Angels of the hearth’? -- Leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity -- chapter 5 Labouring women -- Work, family and community in the classes populaires -- chapter 6 Femmes nouvelles -- Feminists, socialists and republicans in the Romantic era -- part Part III (1850–80) Discourses on ‘woman’ -- chapter 7 Femininity: constructions, consequence, control -- Constructions, consequences, control -- chapter 8 Representations of the ouvrière -- The discourse on female labour -- chapter 9 Reformulating the ‘woman question’ -- From literary polemics to organised feminism -- part Part IV (1880–1914) Gender relations in crisis? -- chapter 10 A new Eve? -- Bourgeois women in the belle époque -- chapter 11 Gender at work -- Women workers and the sexual division of labour -- chapter 12 In search of citizenship -- Feminists and women’s suffrage.