Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France

   1. Introduction: Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France

      • Elinor Accampo, Christopher E. Forth

      Pages 1-14

3. Gender, Citizenship, and Republicanism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-18

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   2. Revising the Sexual Contract: Women’s Citizenship and Republicanism in France, 1789–1944

      • Charles Sowerwine

      Pages 19-42

   3. Is the ‘Woman Question’ Really the ‘Man Problem’?

      • Karen Offen

      Pages 43-62

4. Bodies, Minds, and Spirit

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. From aliéné to dégénéré: Moral Agency and the Psychiatric Imagination in Nineteenth-Century France

      • Matt T. Reed

      Pages 67-89

   3. Gastronomy and the Diagnosis of Anorexia in Fin-de-Siècle France

      • Elizabeth A. Williams

      Pages 90-111

   4. Papus the Misogynist: Honor, Gender, and the Occult in Fin-de-Siècle France

      • James Smith Allen

      Pages 112-129

5. Morality, Honor, and Masculinity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Social Control in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Protestant Campaigns for Strict Public Morality

      • Steven C. Hause

      Pages 135-149

   3. Paternity, Progeny, and Property: Family Honor in the Late Nineteenth Century

      • Rachel G. Fuchs

      Pages 150-168

   4. Shaming Men: Feminist Honor and the Sexual Double Standard in Belle Époque France

      • Andrea Mansker

      Pages 169-191

   5. ‘Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage’: Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

      • Michael L. Wilson

      Pages 192-212

6. Gender and the Dreyfus Affair

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. From Devil’s Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-Hero

      • Venita Datta

      Pages 217-234

   3. Two Salonnières during the Dreyfus Affair: the Marquise Arconati Visconti and Gyp

      • Ruth Harris

      Pages 235-249

   4. Conclusion

      • Elinor Accampo, Christopher E. Forth

      Pages 250-258

7. Back Matter

   Pages 259-265

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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.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• France
• gender
• history
• women

• University of Kansas, USA

  Christopher E. Forth

• University of Southern California, USA

  Elinor Accampo

ELINOR ACCAMPO Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USA JAMES SMITH ALLEN Professor of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA VENITA DATTA Professor of French, Wellesley College, USA CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH Howard Professor of Humanities and Western Civilization, the University of Kansas, USA RACHEL G. FUCHS Distinguished Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University, USA RUTH HARRIS Fellow and Tutor, New College, University of Oxford, UK STEVEN C. HAUSE Senior Scholar in the Humanities and Co-Director of European Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, USA ANDREA MANSKER Assistant Professor of History, the University of the South, Tennessee, USA KAREN OFFEN Senior Scholar, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, USA MATT REED Independant historian and Director of Analysis and Partnerships with the Aga Khan Development Network, London, UK CHARLES SOWERWINE Professorial Fellow in History, the University of Melbourne, Australia ELIZABETH A. WILLIAMS Professor of History, Oklahoma State University, USA MICHAEL L. WILSON Associate Professor of History and Humanities, the University of Texas at Dallas, USA

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