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France and Women, 1789-1914

Gender, Society and Politics

By: James McMillan, Professor James F Mcmillan

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Hardcover | 16 December 1999 | Edition Number 1

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300 Pages

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"France and Women" is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. McMillan offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war.
The book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernization and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. The author provides detailed discussions of the:
legacy of the Enlightenment;
aftermath of the French Revolution;
cultural construction of femininity;
bourgeois women in the Belle Epoque;
family and community of laboring women;
and sexual division of labor.
He also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout French society that women should remain within the domestic sphere.

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..."McMillan again demonstrates a masterful grasp, both in his ability to place his study of women within the broader context of French history and his ability to synthesize the often fragmentary and discordant evidence and arguments of other scholars....This study will prove a useful text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers will discover in McMillian a treasure trove of topics for deeper investigation.." -F. Burkhard, University of Maryland University College "This book serves as an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with French women's history, with an outstanding bibiliography to guide the reader to both primary and secondary sources. It would also make a superb addition to any course in modern European and French history; McMillan is more than adept at situating women's history into a greater historical context and holds the reader's interest with an engaging mixture of life histories within the larger narrative.." -the Journal of Social History, Fall 2001

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