Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France

ANDREA MANSKER is Associate Professor of History at Sewanee: University of the South, USA. She recently contributed to the volume edited by Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth, Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender (2010).

• Acknowledgements Introduction 'Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!' The New Woman and the Debate over Female Honour The Sexual Insult: Medicalized Views of Singleness during the Long Nineteenth Century Rethinking Honour in the Republican Family: Fin-de-Siècle Divorce Suits The Honour of a Name: Marital Status, Property, and the Patronymic The Feminist Politics of the Female Surplus: Constructing Citizenship through Singleness Sexual Citizenship and the Political Culture of Shame in the Women's Movement Conclusion: Giving the Lie Notes Index