The woman question in France, 1400-1870 / Karen Offen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Offen, Karen M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--France--History.

Women.

Women--France--Social conditions.

Sex role.

History.

Women--Political activity.

France.

Social conditions.

Women--Political activity--France--History.

Sex role--France--History.

France--History.

France--Social conditions.

France--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of bio-medical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Reconnaissance : voices from the French debates on the woman question, 1400-1870

Confronting the woman question in French history : a general introduction

Querying women's power and influence in French culture

Assessing the problem of women and political authority in French history

Biomedical thinking, population concerns, and the politics of sexual knowledge

Education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge

The politics of women's history in nineteenth-century France

The politics of women's work in France before 1870

Taking stock : the woman question on the eve of the Third Republic

Appendix. Timeline : 1400-1870.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107188082

1107188083

OCLC:

972736253