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Beauvoir and her sisters : the politics of women's bodies in France / / Sandra Reineke



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Autore: Reineke Sandra Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beauvoir and her sisters : the politics of women's bodies in France / / Sandra Reineke Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
Disciplina: 305.420944
Soggetto topico: Feminism - France - History - 20th century
Feminist literature - France - History and criticism
Citizenship - France
Women - Political activity - France
Women - Sexual behavior - France
Women - Identity
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [81]-97 ) and index.
Nota di contenuto: The body, writing, and citizenship rights -- Secondary citizens -- Citizen consumers -- Dissident citizens.
Sommario/riassunto: Beauvoir and Her Sisters investigates how women's experiences, as represented in print culture, led to a political identity of an "imagined sisterhood" through which political activism developed and thrived in postwar France. Through the lens of women's political and popular writings, Sandra Reineke presents a unique interpretation of feminist and intellectual discourse on citizenship, identity, and reproductive rights. Drawing on feminist writings by Simone de Beauvoir, feminist reviews from the women's liberation movement, and cultural reproductions from French women's fashion and beauty magazines, Reineke illustrates how print media created new spaces for political and social ideas. This sustained study extends from 1944, when women received the right to vote in France, to 1993, when the French government outlawed anti-abortion activities. Touching on the relationship between consumer culture and feminist practice, Reineke's analysis of a selection of women's writings underlines how these texts challenged traditional gender models and ideals. In revealing that women collectively used texts to challenge the state to redress its abortion laws, Reineke renders the act of writing as a form of political action and highlights the act of reading as an essential but often overlooked space in which marginalized women could exercise dissent and create solidarity.
Titolo autorizzato: Beauvoir and her sisters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786613077394
9781283077392
1283077396
9780252093227
0252093224
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910968061603321
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