Practiced Citizenship Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France / edited by Nimisha Barton and Richard S. Hopkins ; foreword by Johnson Kent Wright ; afterword by Elinor A. Accampo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Accampo, Elinor Ann, writer of afterword.

Wright, Johnson Kent, 1957- writer of foreword.

Hopkins, Richard S., 1961- editor.

Barton, Nimisha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--France--History--20th century.

Women.

Sex role--France--History--20th century.

Sex role.

Women's rights--France--History--20th century.

Women's rights.

Women--France--Social conditions--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Over fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-states, arguing that it proceeded in three stages: from civil rights, to political rights, and finally to social rights. The shortcomings of this model were clear to feminist scholars. As political theorist Carol Pateman argued, the modern social contract undergirding nation-states was from the start premised on an implicit "sexual contract." According to Pateman, the birth of modern democracy necessarily resulted in the political erasure of women. Since the 1990s feminist historians have realized that Marshall's typology failed to describe adequately developments that affected women in France. An examination of the role of women and gender in welfare-state development suggested that social rights rooted in republican notions of womanhood came early and fast for women in France even while political and economic rights would continue to lag behind. While their considerable access to social citizenship privileges shaped their prospects, the absence of women's formal rights still dominates the conversation. Practiced Citizenship offers a significant rereading of that narrative. Through an analysis of how citizenship was lived, practiced, and deployed by women in France in the modern period, Practiced Citizenship demonstrates how gender normativity and the resulting constraints placed on women nevertheless created opportunities for a renegotiation of the social and sexual contract.

Contents:

"Patriotic discipline" : cloistered behinds, public judgment, and female violence in revolutionary Paris / Katie Jarvis

Restoring the royal family : Marie-Therese and the family politics of the early Restoration / Victoria E. Thompson

Gender, immigration, and the everyday practice of social citizenship / Nimisha Barton

Hospital policies, family agency, and mothers at l'Hôpital Sainte-Eugenie, 1855-1875 / Stephanie McBride-Schreiner

Illustrations as good as any slides : women's activist social novels and the french search for social reform, 1880-1914 / Jean Elisabeth Pedersen

French girls are the most desired : organizing against the white slave trade in the belle epoque / Eliza Earle Ferguson

Verine, the Ecole des Parents, and the politics of gender, reaction, and the family, 1929-1944 / Cheryl A. Koos

Politics, money, and distrust : French-American alliances in the international campaign for women's equal rights, 1925-1930 / Sara L. Kimble.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496212474

1496212479

9781496212450

1496212452

OCLC:

1076876299