“…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.”  ·  H-France Review

“…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.”  ·  European History Quarterly

The 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.
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS Chapter 1. New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr Chapter 2. 1890–1914: A ‘Belle Epoque’ for Feminism? Máire Cross Chapter 3. Marguerite Durand and La Fronde: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque Maggie Allison Chapter 4. The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist Anna Norris Chapter 5. Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney Melanie Hawthorne PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN? Chapter 6. Vélo-Métro-Auto: Women’s Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris Siân Reynolds Chapter 7. Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters Ruth E. Iskin Chapter 8. An American in Paris: Loïe Fuller, Dance and Technology Naoko Morita Chapter 9. Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and Technology Elizabeth Ezra PART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE Chapter 10. Spectacles of Themselves: Women Writing for the Stage in Belle Epoque France Kimberly van Noort Chapter 11. Being a Dancer in 1900: Sign of Alienation or Quest for Autonomy? Hélène Laplace-Claverie Chapter 12. Visions of Reciprocity in the Work of Camille Claudel Angela Ryan PART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION Chapter 13. Feminist Discourse in Women’s Novels of Professional Development Juliette M. Rogers Chapter 14. Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance Diana Holmes Chapter 15. Virginal Perversion/Radical Subversion: Rachilde and Discourses of Legitimation Jeri English Chapter 16. Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renée Vivien’s Une femme m’apparut Tama Lea Engelking Chapter 17. Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic’s Eye Catherine Perry Chapter 18. Proletarian Women, Proletarian Writing: The Case of Marguerite Audoux Angela Kershaw PART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN Chapter 19. Coloniser and Colonised in Hubertine Auclert’s Writings on Algeria Edith Taïeb Chapter 20. The Chivalrous Coloniser: Colonial Feminism and the roman à thèse in the Belle Epoque Jennifer Yee Chapter 21. Marcelle Tinayre’s Notes d’une voyageuse en Turquie: Creating Solidarity among Women Margot Irvine Conclusion Select Chronology 1870–1914 Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781845450212
Publisert
2006-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
653 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
364

Biographical note

Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds, UK. She has published widely on French women writers, including Colette, Rachilde, Renée Vivien, and bestselling romantic authors of the Belle Epoque. Her recent publications include Rachilde – Decadence Gender and the Woman Writer (Berg, 2001), and she is working on a study of romance in 20th century France.