Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-De-Siecle France

by Mary Louise Roberts

Book Overview

In fin-de-si cle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226721248
• ISBN13: 9780226721248
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"