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Record Nr.

UNISA996247892103316

Autore

Margadant Jo Burr <1939->

Titolo

The new biography : performing femininity in nineteenth-century France / / Jo Burr Margadant, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2000

ISBN

0-520-93531-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 298 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Studies on the history of society and culture  The new biography

Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 38

Altri autori (Persone)

MargadantJo Burr <1939->

Disciplina

305.42/0944

Soggetti

Feminism - France - History - 19th century

Feminists - France

Motherhood in popular culture - France - History - 19th century

Sex role - France - History - 19th century

Women - Political activity - France - History - 19th century

Women authors, French - 19th century

Feminism - History - 19th century - France

Feminists - History - 19th century - France

Motherhood in popular culture - History - 19th century - France

Sex role - History - Political activity - 19th century - France

Women - 19th century - France

Women authors, French

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Biography

History

France Social conditions 19th century

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. 263-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : constructing selves in historical perspective / Jo Burr Margadant -- The Duchesse de Berry and royalist political culture in postrevolutionary France / Jo Burr Margadant -- "Playing the princess" :



Flora Tristan, performance, and female moral authority during the July monarchy / Susan Grogan -- Republican women and republican families in the personal narratives of George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, and Hortense Allart / Whitney Walton -- Clotilde de Vaux and the search for identity / Mary Pickering -- Acting up : the feminist theatrics of marguerite Durand / Mary Louise Roberts -- Private life, public image : motherhood and militancy in the self-construction of Nelly Roussel, 1900-1922 / Elinor A. Accampo.

Sommario/riassunto

'The New Biography' looks at the life stories of eight famous women in 19th century France who became public figures even thought they lived in a time that did not encourage women to speak out. The subjects include Flora Tristan and Nelly Roussel.