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Author Margadant, Jo Burr, 1939-

Title The new biography : performing femininity in nineteenth-century France / edited by Jo Burr Margadant.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.420944 M336n 2000    ---  Available
Description x, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Studies on the history of society and culture ; 38
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-284) and index.
Contents Duchesse de Berry and royalist political culture in postrevolutionary France / Jo Burr Margadant -- "Playing the princess" : Flora Tristan, performance, and female moral authority during the July monarchy / Susan Grogan -- Republican women and republican families in the personal narratives of George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, and Hortense Allart / Whitney Walton -- Clotilde de Vaux and the search for identity / Mary Pickering -- Acting up : the feminist theatrics of Marguerite Durand / Mary Louise Roberts -- Private life, public image : motherhood and militancy in the self-construction of Nelly Roussel, 1900-1922 / Elinor A. Accampo.
Subject Feminism -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Feminists -- France -- Biography.
Motherhood in popular culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Women in politics -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Women authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
ISBN 0520221419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520221400 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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