Confronting Modernity in Fin-De-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender

by Christopher E. Forth and Elinor A. Accampo

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230220991
• ISBN13: 9780230220997
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"