Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France / by A. Mansker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansker, Andrea, 1972-

Series:

Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

France--History.

France.

Sex.

History, Modern.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Social History.

History of France.

Gender Studies.

Modern History.

European History.

Local Subjects:

Social History.

History of France.

Gender Studies.

Modern History.

European History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities.

Contents:

Cover; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Content; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!" The New Woman and the Debate over Female Honor; 2 The Sexual Insult: Medicalized Views of Singleness during the Long Nineteenth Century; 3 Rethinking Honor in the Republican Family: Fin-de-Siècle Divorce Suits; 4 The Honor of a Name: Marital Status, Property, and the Patronymic; 5 The Feminist Politics of the Female Surplus: Constructing Citizenship through Singleness; 6 Sexual Citizenship and the Political Culture of Shame in the Women's Movement

Conclusion: Giving the LieNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613318459

9781283318457

1283318458

9780230348196

023034819X

OCLC:

759166789