James McMillan, James F Mcmillan

France and Women, 1789-1914

Gender, Society and Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

France 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780415226035
• ISBN-10: 0415226031
• Artikelnr.: 21327663

Autorenporträt

James McMillan, Professor James F Mcmillan

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Preface
Introduction
PART 1 (1789-1815). Redefining women's sphere
1. Defining womanhood: the legacy of the Enlightenment
2. The rights of man and the rights of woman: women and the French Revolution
3. Revolutionary aftermath: the reconstruction of the gender order
PART II. (1815-50) Public man
private woman?
4. 'Angels of the hearth'? leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity
5. Labouring women: work
family and community in the classes populaires
6. Femmes nouvelles: feminists
socialists and republicans in the Romantic era
PART III. (1850-80) Discourses on 'woman'
7. Femininity: constructions
consequence
control
8. Representations of the ouvrière: the discourse on female labour
9. Reformulating the 'woman question': from literary polemics to organised feminism
PART IV. (1880-1914) Gender relations in crisis?
10. A new Eve? bourgeois women in the belle époque
11. Gender at work: women workers and the sexual division of labour
12. In search of citizenship: feminists and women's suffrage
Epilogue: France and feminism
Notes
Bibliography
Index