Disruptive Acts: The New Woman In Fin-de-Siecle France -

University of Chicago Press, 2002-10-01. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. <br> "Disruptive Acts is a beautifully written and fascinating study of the emergence of the 'new woman' in fin-de-siecle France in context of the period's mass print culture, its preoccupation with the theater, its increasing commodification of culture, and the rise of the Third Republic. The book very importantly expands the history of how women resisted liberal domesticity in fin-de-siecle France and will be indispensable reading for a wide range of scholars." - Susan Lurie

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xii, 354 pp. Bound in full brown cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Very Good+, small stain to front cover, otherwise bright copy, tight and clean, in Very Good+, dust jacket with small stain to verso of front cover.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New. In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the &quot;new women&quot;, 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 &quot;masculine&quot; work outside the home. Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of these famous new women active in journalism and the theatre, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newspaper &quot;La Fronde&quot;; the journalists Severine 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… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 2002-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2002. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 364 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.