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A "belle epoque"?: women in French society and culture, 1890-1914

Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page xi)
  • List of Illustrations (page xiii)
  • Introduction (Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr, page 1)
  • PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS
    • 1. New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque (Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr, page 11)
    • 2. 1890-1914: A 'Belle Epoque' for Feminism? (Máire Cross, page 23)
    • 3. Marguerite Durand and La Fronde: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque (Maggie Allison, page 37)
    • 4. The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist (Anna Norris, page 51)
    • 5. Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney (Melanie Hawthorne, page 65)
  • PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?
    • 6. Vélo-Métro-Auto: Women's Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris (Siân Reynolds, page 81)
    • 7. Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters (Ruth E. Iskin, page 95)
    • 8. An American in Paris: Loïe Fuller, Dance and Technology (Naoko Morita, page 113)
    • 9. Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and Technology (Elizabeth Ezra, page 125)
  • PART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE
    • 10. Spectacles of Themselves: Women Writing for the Stage in Belle Epoque France (Kimberly van Noort, page 139)
    • 11. Being a Dancer in 1900: Sign of Alienation or Quest for Autonomy? (Hélène Laplace-Claverie, page 153)
    • 12. Visions of Reciprocity in the Work of Camille Claudel (Angela Ryan, page 167)
  • PART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION
    • 13. Feminist Discourse in Women's Novels of Professional Development (Juliette M. Rogers, page 183)
    • 14. Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance (Diana Holmes, page 197)
    • 15. Virginal Perversion/Radical Subversion: Rachilde and Discourses of Legitimation (Jeri English, page 211)
    • 16. Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renée Vivien's Une femme m'apparut (Tama Lea Engelking, page 225)
    • 17. Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic's Eye (Catherine Perry, page 239)
    • 18. Proletarian Women, Proletarian Writing: The Case of Marguerite Audoux (Angela Kershaw, page 253)
  • PART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN
    • 19. Coloniser and Colonised in Hubertine Auclert's Writings on Algeria (Edith Taïeb, page 271)
    • 20. The Chivalrous Coloniser: Colonial Feminism and the roman à thèse in the Belle Epoque (Jennifer Yee, page 283)
    • 21. Marcelle Tinayre's Notes d'une voyageuse en Turquie: Creating Solidarity among Women (Margot Irvine, page 295)
  • Conclusion (page 307)
  • Select Chronology 1870-1914 (page 309)
  • Bibliography (page 313)
  • Notes on Contributors (page 335)
  • Index (page 341)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
FR 81.4 (March 2008): 804-805 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25481281
WIFS 14 (2006): 147-148 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/509370
FSQR 62.4 (Oct. 2008): 488 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/253393
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Published: 2007
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN(s)
  • 9781845450946 (paper)
  • 9780857457011 (ebook)
  • 9781845450212 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Gender Studies
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