Confronting modernity in fin-de-siècle France

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Christopher E. Forth
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"A reassessment of the Third Republic as the first long-term successful French experiment with a democratic republic. Born of violent revolution against church, monarchy, and aristocracy, it was fraught with contradictions between the universalism of human rights and the practical need to deny certain categories of people the rights of citizenship"--Provided by publisher.

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Palgrave Macmillan
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English

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth
pt. 1. Gender, citizenship, and republicanism
Revising the sexual contract : women's citizenship and republicanism in France, 1789-1944 / Charles Sowerwine
"Is the woman question really the man problem?" / Karen Offen
pt. 2. Bodies, minds, and spirit
From aliéné to dégénéré : moral agency and the psychiatric imagination in nineteenth-century France / Matt Reed
Gastronomy and the diagnosis of anorexia in fin-de-siècle France / Elizabeth A. Williams
Papus the misogynist : honor, gender, and the occult in fin-de-siècle France / James Smith Allen
pt. 3. Morality, honor, and masculinity
Social control in late nineteenth-century France : Protestant campaigns for strict public morality / Steven C. Hause
Paternity, progeny, and property : family honor in the late nineteenth century / Rachel G. Fuchs
Shaming men : feminist honor and the sexual double standard in Belle Époque France / Andrea Mansker
Capped with hope, clad in youth, shod in courage : masculinity and marginality in fin-de-siècle Paris / Michael L. Wilson
pt. 4. Gender and the Dreyfus Affair
From Devil's Island to the pantheon : Alfred Dreyfus, the anti-hero / Venita Datta
Two salonnières during the Dreyfus Affair : the Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp / Ruth Harris.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, NY

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.42094409041
Library of Congress
HQ1075.5.F8 C66 2010, DC1-DC947D900-D2027D

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p. cm.

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OL24488768M
ISBN 13
9780230220997
LCCN
2009044147
OCLC/WorldCat
463854702

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