LEADER 04605nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910458029103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02081-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020818 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396493 035 $a(DLC)2001024841 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH21620374 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084048 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084048 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162977 035 $a(PQKB)11057029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300597 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326142 035 $a(OCoLC)923112292 035 $a(DE-B1597)574579 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020818 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396493 100 $a20010424d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDaughters of Eve$b[electronic resource] $ea cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de sie?cle /$fLenard R. Berlanstein 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (x, 300 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00596-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-293) and index. 327 $tIntroduction --$t1. Setting the Scene --$t2. Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789 --$t3. Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815 --$t4. Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 --$t5. The Erotic Culture of the Stage --$t6. The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880 --$t7. Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914 --$t8. Performing a Self --$t9. From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers --$tConclusion 330 $aFamous and seductive, female stage performers haunted French public life in the century before and after the Revolution. This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. From the moment they became an unofficial caste of mistresses to France's elite during the reign of Louis XIV, their image fluctuated between emasculating men and delighting them. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, society columns, theater criticism, government reports, autobiographies, public rituals, and a huge corpus of fiction, Lenard Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next. Tolerated when civil society functioned and demonized when it faltered, they finally passed from notoriety to celebrity with the stabilization of parliamentary life after 1880. Only then could female fans admire them openly, and could the state officially recognize their contributions to national life. Daughters of Eve is a provocative look at how a culture creates social perceptions and reshuffles collective identities in response to political change.Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Setting the Scene 2 Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789 3 Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815 4 Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 5 The Erotic Culture of the Stage 6 The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880 7 Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914 8 Performing a Self 9 From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers Conclusion Notes Index Reviews of this book: Students of French literature and culture will welcome this study of female performers, women who historically achieved great prominence because of their sexuality and public presence. Yet this is much more than simply a descriptive history. Berlanstein.puts theater women into the context of the evolving French debate over the role of women in the public sphere.This fascinating new work is an important addition to the scholarship on French gender history. Recommended for specialists in French history and culture.--Library Journal 606 $aWomen in the theater$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen in the theater$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aActresses$zFrance$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen in the theater$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in the theater$xHistory 615 0$aActresses 676 $a792.028082094409033 700 $aBerlanstein$b Lenard R$0140652 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458029103321 996 $aDaughters of Eve$92363479 997 $aUNINA