Table of Contents

List of tables, Preface, Introduction, PART 1 (1789–1815). Redefining women’s sphere, 1. Defining womanhood: the legacy of the Enlightenment, 2. The rights of man and the rights of woman: women and the French Revolution, 3. Revolutionary aftermath: the reconstruction of the gender order, PART II. (1815–50) Public man, private woman?, 4. ‘Angels of the hearth’? leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity, 5. Labouring women: work, family and community in the classes populaires, 6. Femmes nouvelles: feminists, socialists and republicans in the Romantic era, PART III. (1850–80) Discourses on ‘woman’, 7. Femininity: constructions, consequence, control, 8. Representations of the ouvrière: the discourse on female labour, 9. Reformulating the ‘woman question’: from literary polemics to organised feminism, PART IV. (1880–1914) Gender relations in crisis?, 10. A new Eve? bourgeois women in the belle époque, 11. Gender at work: women workers and the sexual division of labour, 12. In search of citizenship: feminists and women’s suffrage, Epilogue: France and feminism, Notes, Bibliography, Index

About the Author

James McMillan, Professor James F Mcmillan

Reviews

'Instructors and students of French history and women's studies will find McMillan's text indispensable. With extensive notes ... convincing arguments and an absorbing style, the book promotes informed comparisons of the status of women now and then ...' - The French Review