A Belle Epoque?

Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84545-021-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections

The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new "seventh art" of cinema. This book explores all these facets of the period, weaving them into a complex, multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women’s history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, Diana

Tarr, Carrie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr

PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS

Chapter 1. New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque

Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr

Chapter 2. 1890–1914: A ‘Belle Epoque’ for Feminism?

Máire Cross

Chapter 3. Marguerite Durand and La Fronde: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque

Maggie Allison

Chapter 4. The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist

Anna Norris

Chapter 5. Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney

Melanie Hawthorne

PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?

Chapter 6. Vélo-Métro-Auto: Women’s Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris

Siân Reynolds

Chapter 7. Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters

Ruth E. Iskin

Chapter 8. An American in Paris: Loïe Fuller, Dance and Technology

Naoko Morita

Chapter 9. Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and Technology

Elizabeth Ezra

PART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE

Chapter 10. Spectacles of Themselves: Women Writing for the Stage in Belle Epoque France

Kimberly van Noort

Chapter 11. Being a Dancer in 1900: Sign of Alienation or Quest for Autonomy?

Hélène Laplace-Claverie

Chapter 12. Visions of Reciprocity in the Work of Camille Claudel

Angela Ryan

PART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION

Chapter 13. Feminist Discourse in Women’s Novels of Professional Development

Juliette M. Rogers

Chapter 14. Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance

Diana Holmes

Chapter 15. Virginal Perversion/Radical Subversion: Rachilde and Discourses of Legitimation

Jeri English

Chapter 16. Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renée Vivien’s Une femme m’apparut Tama

Lea Engelking

Chapter 17. Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic’s Eye

Catherine Perry

Chapter 18. Proletarian Women, Proletarian Writing: The Case of Marguerite Audoux

Angela Kershaw

PART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN

Chapter 19. Coloniser and Colonised in Hubertine Auclert’s Writings on Algeria

Edith Taïeb

Chapter 20. The Chivalrous Coloniser: Colonial Feminism and the roman à thèse in the Belle Epoque

Jennifer Yee

Chapter 21. Marcelle Tinayre’s Notes d’une voyageuse en Turquie: Creating Solidarity among Women

Margot Irvine

Conclusion

Select Chronology 1870–1914

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tarr, Carrie
Carrie Tarr is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kingston University London. She has published extensively on gender and ethnicity in French cinema. Her recent publications include Cinema and the Second Sex: Women’s Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and1990s (with B. Rollet, 2001) and Reframing Difference: beur and banlieue cinema in France (2005).

Holmes, Diana
Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds, UK. She has published widely on French women writers, including Colette, Rachilde, Renée Vivien, and bestselling romantic authors of the Belle Epoque. Her recent publications include Rachilde – Decadence Gender and the Woman Writer (Berg, 2001), and she is working on a study of romance in 20th century France.

Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds, UK. She has published widely on French women writers, including Colette, Rachilde, Renée Vivien, and bestselling romantic authors of the Belle Epoque. Her recent publications include Rachilde – Decadence Gender and the Woman Writer (Berg, 2001), and she is working on a study of romance in 20th century France.