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. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernisation and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s. |
Contents
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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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