The Third Republic, known as the belle ?poque, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new seventh art of cinema. This book explores all these facets of the period, weaving them into a complex, multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French womens history.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Diana HolmesandCarrie Tarr
PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS
Chapter 1.New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque
Diana HolmesandCarrie Tarr
Chapter 2.18901914: A Belle Epoque for Feminism?
M?ire Cross
Chapter 3.Marguerite Durand andLa Fronde: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque
Maggie Allison
Chapter 4.The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist
Anna Norris
Chapter 5.Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney
Melanie Hawthorne
PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?
Chapter 6.V?lo-M?tro-Auto: Womens Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris
Si?n Reynolds
Chapter 7.Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters
Ruth E. Iskin
Chapter 8.An American in Paris: Lo?e Fuller, Dance and Technology
Naoko Morita
Chapter 9.Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and TlS+
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