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Legislating the French family: feminism, theater, and republican politics, 1870-1920

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen 2004 © Rutgers University Press
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  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Frontispiece
  • Introduction
  • Part I The Meanings of Marriage The Politics of Separation and Divorce
    • Chapter 1 Is France a "Latin Country"? Republican Citizenship and French National Identity in the Divorce Debates of 1870-1884
      • [Intro]
      • Madame Cavarlet: The Controversies, the Crowd, and the Critics
      • Divorce as a Feminist Reform
      • Feminist Protest and Naquet's Project
      • Naquet's Proposals and Public Responses
      • Naquet's Proposal in Parliament
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 2 "Fog from the North" Social Theater, Cosmopolitan Culture, and The Fin de Siècle Marriage Crisis, 1884-1902
      • [Intro]
      • Paul Hervieu and Les tenailles
      • Hervieu's Play and Its Public
      • Hervieu's Irène and Ibsen's Nora
      • Alternate Endings and Audience Appeal
      • Feminists, Socialists, and the Families of the Future
      • Social Theater, Social Reform, and the Reinterpretation of Revolutionary Rights
      • Liberty, Equality, and Divorce at the Will of One Person
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 3 "Two Forms of Thought, Two Civilizations, [and] Two Worlds" New Women, Free Unions, Separation, and Divorce, 1902-1914
      • [Intro]
      • Paul Bourget and His Attack on the Marguerittes
      • Bourget's Play and Its Public
      • The Matin Survey and the Téry Feuilleton
      • Separation of Church and State, Separation between Marriage and Divorce
      • Radicals' Reforms and Women's Rights
      • Conclusion
  • Part II The Meanings of Motherhood The Politics of Paternity Suits, Abortion, and Birth Control
    • Chapter 4 "All Men Are [Not] Born Free and Equal in Rights" Gender, Generation, and Class Conflict in the Debate over Illegitimacy and Paternity Suits, 1870-1884
      • [Intro]
      • Augier's Fourchambault and Dumas fils's Fils naturel: Parallel Plots
      • Augier's Fourchambault and Dumas fils's Fils naturel: Surface Similarities and Deeper Differences
      • Plays, Politics, and Paternity Suits
      • Paternity Suits in Parliament
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 5 "Special Customs" Paternity Suits and the Limits of Citizenship in France and the Colonies, 1890-1912
      • [Intro]
      • Paternity Suits and Public Interest
      • Feminist Approaches to Social Reform
      • Paternity Suits in Parliament: Masters, Servants, and Working-Class Women
      • Paternity Suits in Parliament: French Men, Native Women, and Métis Children
      • Paternity Suits and Feminist Protest
      • Conclusion
    • Chapter 6 "An Origin That Is Not French" Motherhood, Revolt, and Reproductive Rights before, during, and after the Great War
      • [Intro]
      • Motherhood and Revolt: Nelly Roussel and Par la révolte
      • Motherhood and Revolt: Eugène Brieux and Maternité
      • Depopulation: Gender, Professions, and Politics
      • Extraparliamentary Commissions and Parliamentary Proposals
      • Continuity and Change across the Great Divide
      • Conclusion
    • Conclusion
  • Additional Resources Illustrations
  • Notes
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1 Republican Citizenship and National Identity
    • Chapter 2 Social Theater, Cosmopolitan Culture, Marriage Crisis
    • Chapter 3 New Women, Free Unions, Separation, and Divorce
    • Chapter 4 Gender, Generation, and Class Conflict
    • Chapter 5 Paternity Suits and the Limits of Citizenship
    • Chapter 6 Motherhood, Revolt, and Repoductive Rights
    • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
    • Primary Sources
      • Archives and Special Collections in Paris
      • Additional Libraries and Archives
      • Selected Newspapers, Journals, and Other Serial Publications
      • Selected Books
    • Selected Secondary Sources
  • Index
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    • O-Z
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Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago.

F. Séguin, illustration for "La crise du mariage," by G. Saint-Aubin, La revue et La revue des revues (Jan.-Mar. 1899).

Figure 1. F. Séguin, illustration for "La crise du mariage," by G. Saint-Aubin, La revue et La revue des revues (Jan.-Mar. 1899).

Courtesy of the ACRPP (Association pour la conservation et la reproduction photographique de la presse, Marne-la-Vallée).

Illustration for "La crise du divorce," Le matin, 12 February 1908, page 1.

Figure 2. Illustration for "La crise du divorce," Le matin, 12 February 1908, page 1.

Courtesy of the Bibliothéque Marguerite Durand, Paris.

Henri Godet, sculptured cover illustration for Par la révolte: Scène symbolique, by Nelly Roussel (Paris: Godet, n.d.).

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AHR 109.4 (October 2004) http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/109.4/br_144.html
JIH 37.3 (Winter 2007): 452-453 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v037/37.3panchasi.html
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Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France. Winock, Michel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
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