The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvKaren Offen,California) Offen, Karen (Stanford University

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This is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past from the early fifteenth century to the establishment of the Third Republic, focused on public challenges and defenses of masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men. Karen Offen surveys heated exchanges around women's 'influence'; their exclusion from 'authority'; the increasing prominence of biomedical thinking and population issues; concerns about education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; and the politics of women's work. Initially, the majority of commentators were literate and influential men. However, as more and more women attained literacy, they too began to analyze their situation in print and to contest men's claims about who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, and why. As urban print culture exploded and revolutionary ideas of 'equality' fuelled women's claims for emancipation, this question resonated throughout francophone Europe and, ultimately, across the seas.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-28
Mått229 x 152 x 16 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in European History
Antal sidor306
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316638422

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Confronting the woman question in French history: a general introduction; 1. Querying women's power and influence in French culture; 2. Assessing the problem of women and political authority in French history; 3. Bio-medical thinking, population concerns, and the politics of sexual knowledge; 4. Education, intellect, and the sexual politics of knowledge; 5. The politics of women's history in nineteenth-century France; 6. The politics of women's work in France before 1870; 7. Taking stock: the women question on the eve of the Third Republic; Appendix with important dates; Index.

'A monumental work of historical scholarship. In every chapter, Offen demonstrates the wide variety of women's voices, the importance of their intellectual contributions, and the persistence with which women leaders agitated for change. With admirable, lucid prose, she shows that when individuals analyzed the nature and meaning of 'woman', they were also talking about other crucial things - from power and authority to biology and religion. This book makes an exceptionally important contribution to the history of women, gender, and women's emancipation (including the obstacles to it), while reorienting our understanding of French history itself.' Edward Berenson, New York University