{"product_id":"a-belle-epoque-women-and-feminism-in-french-society-and-culture-1890-1914-9781845450212","title":"A Belle Epoque?: Women and Feminism in French","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new \"seventh art\" of cinema. This book explores all these facets of the period, weaving them into a complex, multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…this volume makes a welcome contribution to the history of women, gender, and feminism…The essays, while brief, suggest interesting lines for further inquiry based on their creative use of printed sources…, as well as visual materials.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  H-France Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…many of the essays are extremely interesting and historians will find them valuable. The book’s brief conclusion emphasizes the achievements of the Belle Epoque: it altered ‘the sense of what it was to be a woman’ (307). Women did have a ‘Belle Epoque’, it seems, albeit a different one from men.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  European History Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDiana Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCarrie Tarr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDiana Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCarrie Tarr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e 1890–1914: A ‘Belle Epoque’ for Feminism?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMáire Cross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Marguerite Durand and \u003ci\u003eLa Fronde\u003c\/i\u003e: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMaggie Allison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnna Norris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMelanie Hawthorne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eVélo-Métro-Auto\u003c\/i\u003e: Women’s Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSiân Reynolds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRuth E. Iskin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e An American in Paris: Loïe Fuller, Dance and Technology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNaoko Morita\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and Technology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Ezra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Spectacles of Themselves: Women Writing for the Stage in Belle Epoque France\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKimberly van Noort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Being a Dancer in 1900: Sign of Alienation or Quest for Autonomy?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHélène Laplace-Claverie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Visions of Reciprocity in the Work of Camille Claudel\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAngela Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Discourse in Women’s Novels of Professional Development\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJuliette M. Rogers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDiana Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/b\u003e Virginal Perversion\/Radical Subversion: Rachilde and Discourses of Legitimation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJeri English\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/b\u003e Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renée Vivien’s \u003ci\u003eUne femme m’apparut\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTama\u003cbr\u003e \tLea Engelking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/b\u003e Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic’s Eye\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCatherine Perry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/b\u003e Proletarian Women, Proletarian Writing: The Case of Marguerite Audoux\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAngela Kershaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 19.\u003c\/b\u003e Coloniser and Colonised in Hubertine Auclert’s Writings on Algeria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEdith Taïeb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 20.\u003c\/b\u003e The Chivalrous Coloniser: Colonial Feminism and the \u003ci\u003eroman à thèse\u003c\/i\u003e in the Belle Epoque\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJennifer Yee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 21.\u003c\/b\u003e Marcelle Tinayre’s \u003ci\u003eNotes d’une voyageuse en Turquie\u003c\/i\u003e: Creating Solidarity among Women\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMargot Irvine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tSelect Chronology 1870–1914\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042961359191,"sku":"9781845450212","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450212.jpg?v=1750956414","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-belle-epoque-women-and-feminism-in-french-society-and-culture-1890-1914-9781845450212","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}