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Disruptive Acts
Mary Louise Roberts
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Description for Disruptive Acts
Hardcover. In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the 'new woman', a group of primarily urban, middle class French women. This work studies these women who challenged traditional notions of womanhood and conventionality. Num Pages: 304 pages, 36 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 642.
In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women", a group of primarily urban middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home. Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of these famous new women active in journalism and the theatre, including Marguerite Durand, founder of ... Read more
In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women", a group of primarily urban middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home. Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of these famous new women active in journalism and the theatre, including Marguerite Durand, founder of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226721248
SKU
V9780226721248
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About Mary Louise Roberts
Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Disruptive Acts
"Disruptive Acts is a beautifully written and fascinating study of the emergence of the 'new woman' in fin-de-siecle France in context of the period's mass print culture, its preoccupation with the theater, its increasing commodification of culture, and the rise of the Third Republic. The book very importantly expands the history of how women resisted liberal domesticity in fin-de-siecle France ... Read more