Confronting modernity in fin-de-siècle France: bodies, minds and gender

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volumeexplores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s. INDICE: Notes on Contributors - Introduction; E.Accampo ; C.E.Forth - PARTI: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP AND REPUBLICANISM - Revising the Sexual Contract: Women's Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789-1944; C.Sowerwine - Is the 'Woman Question' Really the 'Man Problem'?; K.Offen - PART II: BODIES, MINDS AND SPIRIT - From aliéné to dégénéré: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France; M.Reed - Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Siècle France; E.A.Williams - Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Siècle France; J.Smith Allen - PART III: MORALITY, HONOUR AND MASCULINITY - Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality; S.C.Hause - Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honour in the Late Nineteenth Century; R.G.Fuchs - Shaming Men: Feminist Honour and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle Époque France; A.Mansker - 'Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage': Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris; M. L.Wilson - PART IV: GENDER AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR - From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-hero; V.Datta - Two Salonnières during the Dreyfus Affair: The Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp; R.Harris - Conclusion; E.Accampo ; C.E.Forth

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22099-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 27/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés