Kniha Disruptive Acts Mary Louise Roberts

Disruptive Acts

The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-20 dnů
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In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2003
Stránek
304
EAN
9780226721248
ISBN
0226721248
Enbook ID
04548810
Hmotnost
642
Rozměry
159 x 233 x 26

Kompletní popis

In fin-de-siecle 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 these famous new women active in journalism and the theatre, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newspaper "La Fronde"; the journalists Severine 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" should be a major work not just for historians, but also for scholars of cultural studies, gender studies and the theatre.

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