France and women, 1789-1914 : gender, society and politics / James F. McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillan, James F., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--France--History.

Women.

Women--France--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernisation and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s.

Contents:

part PART 1 (1789–1815) Redefining women’s sphere

chapter 1 Defining womanhood

The legacy of the Enlightenment

chapter 2 The rights of man and the rights of woman

Women and the French Revolution

chapter 3 Revolutionary aftermath

The reconstruction of the gender order

part Part II (1815–50) Public man, private woman?

chapter 4 ‘Angels of the hearth’?

Leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity

chapter 5 Labouring women

Work, family and community in the classes populaires

chapter 6 Femmes nouvelles

Feminists, socialists and republicans in the Romantic era

part Part III (1850–80) Discourses on ‘woman’

chapter 7 Femininity: constructions, consequence, control

Constructions, consequences, control

chapter 8 Representations of the ouvrière

The discourse on female labour

chapter 9 Reformulating the ‘woman question’

From literary polemics to organised feminism

part Part IV (1880–1914) Gender relations in crisis?

chapter 10 A new Eve?

Bourgeois women in the belle époque

chapter 11 Gender at work

Women workers and the sexual division of labour

chapter 12 In search of citizenship

Feminists and women’s suffrage.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-279) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-58957-3

0-203-24885-6

1-134-58958-1

1-280-33304-9

0-203-02015-4

9780203020159

OCLC:

179161436