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Colette's republic : work, gender, and popular culture in France, 1870-1914 / Patricia A. Tilburg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tilburg, Patricia A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--France--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--France--History--20th century.
- Secularism--France--History--19th century.
- Secularism.
- Secularism--France--History--20th century.
- Education--Social aspects--France--History--19th century.
- Education.
- Education--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Sex role--France--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--France--History--20th century.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--France--History--19th century.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Work, gender, and popular culture in France, 1870-1914
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these republican ideals and the new national education system of the 1870s and 80s-the structure meant to impart these ideals-shaped belle époque popula
- Contents:
- "There are no foolish metiers" : work, class, and secular girls' education
- "A healthy soul in a healthy body" : physical and moral education in the third Republic
- Claudine in Paris : the Republican school in memory and fiction
- Earning her bread : metier, performance, and female honor, 1906-1913
- "The triumph of the flesh" : women, physical culture, and the nude in the French music hall, 1900-1914
- "The people's muse" : pantomime, social art, and the vie interieure.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627897
- 9781282627895
- 1282627899
- 9781845459307
- 184545930X
- OCLC:
- 645102024
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