A Belle Epoque?

by Holmes, Diana; Tarr, Carrie

• ISBN13: 9781845450212
• ISBN10: 1845450213
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-15
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The Third Republic, known as the "belle epoque," 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 near consensus 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 women's history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
List of Illustrations	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
Diana Holmes
Carrie Tarr
PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS
New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque	11	(12)
Diana Holmes
Carrie Tarr
1890--1914: A `Belle Epoque' for Feminism?	23	(14)
Maire Cross
Marguerite Durand and La Fronde: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque	37	(14)
Maggie Allison
The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist	51	(14)
Anna Norris
Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney	65	(16)
Melanie Hawthorne
PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?
Velo-Metro-Auto: Women's Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris	81	(14)
Sian Reynolds
Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters	95	(18)
Ruth E. Iskin
An American in Paris: Loie Fuller, Dance and Technology	113	(12)
Naoko Morita
Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and Technology	125	(14)
Elizabeth Ezra
PART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE
Spectacles of Themselves: Women Writing for the Stage in Belle Epoque France	139	(14)
Kimberly van Noort
Being a Dancer in 1900: Sign of Alienation or Quest for Autonomy?	153	(14)
Helene Laplace-Claverie
Visions of Reciprocity in the Work of Camille Claudel	167	(16)
Angela Ryan
PART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION
Feminist Discourse in Women's Novels of Professional Development	183	(14)
Juliette M. Rogers
Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance	197	(14)
Diana Holmes
Virginal Perversion/Radical Subversion: Rachilde and Discourses of Legitimation	211	(14)
Jeri English
Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renee Vivien's Une femme m'apparut	225	(14)
Tama Lea Engelking
Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic's Eye	239	(14)
Catherine Perry
Proletarian Women, Proletarian Writing: The Case of Marguerite Audoux	253	(18)
Angela Kershaw
PART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN
Coloniser and Colonised in Hubertine Auclert's Writings on Algeria	271	(12)
Edith Taieb
The Chivalrous Coloniser: Colonial Feminism and the roman a these in the Belle Epoque	283	(12)
Jennifer Yee
Marcelle Tinayre's Notes d'une voyageuse en Turquie: Creating Solidarity among Women	295	(12)
Margot Irvine
Conclusion	307	(2)
Select Chronology 1870--1914	309	(4)
Bibliography	313	(22)
Notes on Contributors	335	(6)
Index	341