France and Women, 1789-1914: Gender, Society and PoliticsFrance and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. |
Contents
Defining womanhood the legacy of the Enlightenment | 3 |
medical discourse and the female body | 4 |
The philosophes and women | 6 |
Salon women and their enemies | 8 |
Female journalism and nascent feminism | 11 |
The rights of man and the rights of woman Women and the French Revolution | 15 |
Women in search of citizenship | 16 |
Women and revolutionary activism | 20 |
Education | 98 |
Medical science and the female body | 101 |
Sexuality and the double standard | 103 |
the regulation of prostitution | 107 |
Representations of the ouvriere the discourse on female labour | 110 |
Working men and womens work | 114 |
Womens voices | 117 |
Reformulating the woman question from literary polemics to organised feminism | 121 |
Women and counterrevolution | 25 |
The public sphere redefined | 27 |
Revolutionary aftermath The reconstruction of the gender order | 32 |
the Code and the double standard | 36 |
separate spheres the new domesticity and the redefinition of womanhood | 41 |
181550 Public man private woman? | 45 |
Angels of the hearth? Leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity | 47 |
Wives and mothers | 48 |
charity religion and female sociability | 53 |
education and work | 58 |
Labouring women Work family and community in the ciasses popuiates | 63 |
France and industrialisation | 65 |
the rural world | 67 |
urban women | 70 |
women and protest | 75 |
Femmes nouvelles feminists socialists and republicans in the Romantic era | 79 |
Utopian socialism and feminism | 81 |
Feminism and the 1848 Revolution | 84 |
The antifeminist backlash | 90 |
185080 Discourses on woman | 95 |
Femininity Constructions consequences control | 97 |
Literary feminism | 122 |
The beginnings of organisation | 127 |
the Paris Commune and after | 132 |
The progress of liberal feminism | 135 |
18801914 Gender relations in crisis? | 139 |
A new Eve? Bourgeois women in the belle epoque | 141 |
Progress and prospects | 142 |
Continuities | 154 |
Gender at work women workers and the sexual division of labour | 160 |
womens experience of work | 165 |
Protecting women workers? Social reform and state intervention | 177 |
syndical organisation and industrial militancy | 181 |
In search of citizenship feminists and womens suffrage | 188 |
the spectrum of activism 18891900 | 192 |
the CNFF and the consolidation of the centre 19005 | 201 |
the push for suffrage 190614 | 207 |
Epilogue France and feminism | 217 |
Notes | 231 |
Bibliography | 258 |
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