Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women - Rilegato

Allen, James Smith

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ISBN 10: 0801862043 ISBN 13: 9780801862045

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

To trace the origins of feminist consciousness in France, Allen (history, Southern Illinois University) explores the lives and words of Marie-Sophie Leroyer, GeneviTve BrTton-Vaudoyer, and CTline Renooz-Muro, 19th-century women who wrote extensively about marriage, sexuality, education, religion, and politics. By examining the writings of these women, including many unpublished diaries and letters, Allen documents their deliberate efforts to construct a stable, reliable, discursive self. He argues that they represent a "relational" feminism, which they expressed by considering their relations to themselves and others. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Recensione:

"A touching and artfully told account of the lives of three women from nineteenth-century France, whose abundant and highly varied writings were fortunately entrusted to French archives and libraries... Allen has done a splendid job of getting inside these womens' heads and facilitating our appreciation for their diverse approached to life and writing." -- Karen Offen, Journal of Modern History

"Allen is offering a definite and much-needed lead to combine historical methodologies as against History which has ignored the place of women in so many levels of social change." -- Mary Orr, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

"Detailed and compelling portraits." -- Helynne Hollstein Hansen, Biography

"Solidly researched, elegantly written, and insightful, Allen's book is theoretically sophisticated while still accessible to a general audience." -- Choice

"A thoughtful addition to existing scholarship on feminism and women's history." -- Whitney Walton, American Historical Review

Descrizione del libro:

The biographies of three little known late 19th-century French women, whose lives help explain the more pervasive feminist consciousness that shaped French feminism by century's end.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0801862043
• ISBN 13: 9780801862045
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 270