Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Mary Louise Roberts
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IN THE LAST two decades of the nineteenth century, the French chose the term "fin de siecle" to describe the era they were traversing.
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In fin-de-sicle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home.
Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of famous new women active in journalism and the theater, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newspaper La Fronde; the journalists Sverine and Gyp; and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Roberts demonstrates how the tolerance for playacting in both these arenas allowed new women to stage acts that profoundly disrupted accepted gender roles. The existence of La men--even itself was such an act, because it demonstrated that women could write just as well about the same subjects as men-even about the volatile Dreyfus Affair. When female reporters for La Fronde put on disguises to get a scoop or wrote under a pseudonym, and when actresses played men on stage, they demonstrated that gender identities were not fixed or natural, but inherently unstable. Thanks to the adventures of new women like these, conventional domestic femininity was exposed as a choice, not a destiny. Lively, sophisticated, and persuasive, Disruptive Acts will be a major work not just for historians, but also for scholars of cultural studies, gender studies, and the theater.Details
- Title Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France
- Author Mary Louise Roberts
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 364
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date October 1, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226721248 / 0226721248
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.56 x 1.01 in (23.72 x 16.66 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Bernhardt, Sarah, France - Intellectual life - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002004194
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.420
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