A Belle Epoque? : : Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914 / / ed. by Diana Holmes, Carrie Tarr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allison, Maggie,; Cross, Máire,; Engelking, Tama Lea,; English, Jeri,; Ezra, Elizabeth,; Hawthorne, Melanie,; Holmes, Diana,; Irvine, Margot,; Iskin, Ruth E.,; Kershaw, Angela,; Laplace-Claverie, Hélène,; Morita, Naoko,; Noort, Kimberly van,; Norris, Anna,; Perry, Catherine,; Reynolds, Siân,; Rogers, Juliette M.,; Ryan, Angela,; Tarr, Carrie,; Taïeb, Edith,; Yee, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Holmes, Diana,; Tarr, Carrie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS -- CHAPTER 1 NEW REPUBLIC, NEW WOMEN? FEMINISM AND MODERNITY AT THE BELLE EPOQUE -- CHAPTER 2 1890–1914: A ‘BELLE EPOQUE’ FOR FEMINISM? -- CHAPTER 3 MARGUERITE DURAND AND LA FRONDE: VOICING WOMEN OF THE BELLE EPOQUE -- CHAPTER 4 THE UNCOMPROMISING DOCTOR MADELEINE PELLETIER: FEMINIST AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST -- CHAPTER 5 CLANS AND CHRONOLOGIES: THE SALON OF NATALIE BARNEY -- PART II NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN? -- CHAPTER 6 VÉLO-MÉTRO-AUTO: WOMEN’S MOBILITY IN BELLE EPOQUE PARIS -- CHAPTER 7 POPULARISING NEW WOMEN IN BELLE EPOQUE ADVERTISING POSTERS -- CHAPTER 8 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: LOÏE FULLER, DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- CHAPTER 9 BECOMING WOMEN: CINEMA, GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY -- PART III WOMEN AND SPECTACLE -- CHAPTER 10 SPECTACLES OF THEMSELVES: WOMEN WRITING FOR THE STAGE IN BELLE EPOQUE FRANCE -- CHAPTER 11 BEING A DANCER IN 1900: SIGN OF ALIENATION OR QUEST FOR AUTONOMY? -- CHAPTER 12 VISIONS OF RECIPROCITY IN THE WORK OF CAMILLE CLAUDEL -- PART IV WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION -- CHAPTER 13 FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN WOMEN’S NOVELS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 14 DANIEL LESUEUR AND THE FEMINIST ROMANCE -- CHAPTER 15 VIRGINAL PERVERSION/RADICAL SUBVERSION: RACHILDE AND DISCOURSES OF LEGITIMATION -- CHAPTER 16 DECADENCE AND THE WOMAN WRITER: RENÉE VIVIEN’S UNE FEMME M’APPARUT -- CHAPTER 17 SENSUAL DEVIATIONS AND VERBAL ABUSE: ANNA DE NOAILLES IN THE CRITIC’S EYE -- CHAPTER 18 PROLETARIAN WOMEN, PROLETARIAN WRITING: THE CASE OF MARGUERITE AUDOUX -- PART V COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN -- CHAPTER 19 COLONISER AND COLONISED IN HUBERTINE AUCLERT’S WRITINGS ON ALGERIA -- CHAPTER 20 THE CHIVALROUS COLONISER: COLONIAL FEMINISM AND THE ROMAN À THÈSE IN THE BELLE EPOQUE -- CHAPTER 21 MARCELLE TINAYRE’S NOTES D’UNE VOYAGEUSE EN TURQUIE: CREATING SOLIDARITY AMONG WOMEN -- CONCLUSION -- SELECT CHRONOLOGY 1870–1914 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX