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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960230103321

Autore

Mansker Andrea <1972->

Titolo

Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France / / by A. Mansker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613318459

9781283318457

1283318458

9780230348196

023034819X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487

Classificazione

HIS013000HIS054000HIS037070SOC028000

Disciplina

305.420944/09034

Soggetti

Social history

France - History

Sex

History, Modern

Europe - History

Social History

History of France

Gender Studies

Modern History

European History

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.