Disruptive Acts : The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France - Mary Louise Roberts

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Disruptive Acts

The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France

By: Mary Louise Roberts

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Hardcover | 1 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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In fin-de-siècle 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 unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home.

Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of famous new women active in journalism and the theater, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newspaper La Fronde; the journalists Séverine and Gyp; and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Roberts demonstrates how the tolerance for playacting in both these arenas allowed new women to stage acts that profoundly disrupted accepted gender roles. The existence of La Fronde itself was such an act, because it demonstrated that women could write just as well about the same subjects as men—even about the volatile Dreyfus Affair. When female reporters for La Fronde put on disguises to get a scoop or wrote under a pseudonym, and when actresses played men on stage, they demonstrated that gender identities were not fixed or natural, but inherently unstable. Thanks to the adventures of new women like these, conventional domestic femininity was exposed as a choice, not a destiny.

Lively, sophisticated, and persuasive, Disruptive Acts will be a major work not just for historians, but also for scholars of cultural studies, gender studies, and the theater.

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"Disruptive Acts is a beautifully written and fascinating study of the emergence of the 'new woman' in fin-de-siecle France in context of the period's mass print culture, its preoccupation with the theater, its increasing commodification of culture, and the rise of the Third Republic. The book very importantly expands the history of how women resisted liberal domesticity in fin-de-siecle France and will be indispensable reading for a wide range of scholars." - Susan Lurie, author of Unsettled Subjects: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The New Woman	p. 19
Acting Up	p. 49
Subversive Copy	p. 73
The New Woman and the Jew	p. 107
Caught in the Act	p. 131
The Fantastic Sarah Bernhardt	p. 165
Cabotines to the Core	p. 221
Conclusion	p. 243
Notes	p. 251
Index	p. 333
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