Disruptive Acts The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France

Name: Disruptive Acts The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France
Price: 35.31 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226721255

ISBN-10: 0226721256

ISBN-13: 9780226721255

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mary Louise Roberts

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $35.31

Marketplace

2 new & used from $43.00

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

In fin-de-sicle France, politics were in uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the 'new woman', a group of primarily urban, middle class French women. This work studies these women who challenged traditional notions of womanhood and conventionality.

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and the author ofï¿½ What Soldiersï¿½Do:ï¿½Sex and the American GIï¿½in World War II France, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siï¿½cle France and Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1928.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The New Woman



Acting Up



Subversive Copy



The New Woman and the Jew



Caught in the Act



The Fantastic Sarah Bernhardt



Cabotines to the Core


Conclusion


Notes


Index