The Woman Question in France, 1400-1870

ISBN-13: 9781316638422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 291 str.

Karen Offen

Opis

Debates around the 'woman question' originated in France in the late Middle Ages, and Karen Offen here offers a panoramic account of changing ideas of who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'One finishes reading Offen's books in deep gratitude for the monumental labor that she invested in writing them. Thanks to the author's sustained, forthright pursuit of this new narrative in French history, many more topics now deserve further study … what elements of France's specificity in the contested woman question contributed to the country's slow, troubled modernization? What role, if any, did the debate have in France's overseas territories where race and ethnicity were also at play, especially in the interwar period? Such queries naturally arise from Offen's magisterial work, its shrewd insights and compelling detail …' James Smith Allen, The Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

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.