Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Sicle France Bodies, Minds and Gender [Hardcover]

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s.Notes on Contributors Introduction; E.Accampo & C.E.Forth PART I: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP AND REPUBLICANISM Revising the Sexual Contract: Women's Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789-1944; C.Sowerwine Is the 'Woman Question' Really the 'Man Problem'?; K.Offen PART II: BODIES, MINDS AND SPIRIT From ali?n? to d?g?n?r?: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France; M.Reed Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Si?cle France; E.A.Williams Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Si?cle France; J.Smith Allen PART III: MORALITY, HONOUR AND MASCULINITY Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality; S.C.Hause Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honour in the Late Nineteenth Century; R.G.Fuchs Shaming Men: Feminist Honour and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle ?poque France; A.Mansker 'Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage': Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Si?cle Paris; M. L.Wilson PART IV: GENDER AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-hero; V.Datta Two Salonni?res during the Dreyfus Affair: The Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp; R.Harris Conclusion; E.Accampo & C.E.ForthELINOR ACCAMPO Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USAJAMES SMITH ALLEN Professor of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USAVENITA DATTA Professor of French, Wellesley College, USACHRISTOPHER E. FORTH Howard Professor of Humanities and Western Civilization, the University of Kansas, USARACHEL G. FUCHS Distinguished Foundation Professor ofl"