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Title A "belle epoque"? : women in French society and culture, 1890-1914 / edited by Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Edition First paperback edition.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 344 pages) : illustrations
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Series Polygons : cultural diversities and intersections ; v. 9
Polygons ; v. 9.
Note Originally published: 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index.
Contents Part I. Feminism and feminists -- part II. New technologies, new women? -- part III. Women and spectacle -- part IV. Women, writing and reception -- part V. Colonised and other women.
Summary 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 f.
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Subject Women -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
France -- Civilization -- 19th century.
France -- Civilization -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Civilization
Women
Women -- Social conditions
France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History
Added Author Holmes, Diana, 1949- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjyyBGjmBH8bGccKGCcvDy
Tarr, Carrie, editor.
Added Title Women in French society and culture, 1890-1914
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Print version: "Belle epoque"?. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007 1845450213 1845450949 (DLC) 2005049339
Print version: Belle epoque? Paperback ed. New York, NY ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2007 9781845450946 (OCoLC)183145299
ISBN 9780857457011
0857457012
1845450213
1845450949
9781845450212
9781845450946