A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities. ANDREA MANSKER is Associate Professor of History at Sewanee: University ofthe South, USA. She recently contributed to the volume edited by Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth, 'Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender' (2010). INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - 'Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!' The New Woman and the Debate over Female Honour - The Sexual Insult: Medicalized Views of Singleness during the Long Nineteenth Century - Rethinking Honour in the Republican Family: 'Fin-de-Siècle' Divorce Suits - The Honour of aName: Marital Status, Property, and the Patronymic - The Feminist Politics ofthe Female Surplus: Constructing Citizenship through Singleness - Sexual Citizenship and the Political Culture of Shame in the Women's Movement - Conclusion: Giving the Lie - Notes - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29403-5
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés