ISBN10: 0226721248, ISBN13: 9780226721248, [publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London] Hardcover Looks unread to inside with very faint indent of past higher price to page facing inside front board. Dust jacket with minor crease to top back left corner. POSTAGE OVERSEAS is by AIR and should extra be needed this will be requested. Broadleaf Books is a second hand independent bookshop in Abergavenny, South Wales. Enquiries and visits are very welcome. for hst
[Abergavenny, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Date: 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xii, 354 pp. Bound in full brown cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Very Good+, small stain to front cover, otherwise bright copy, tight and clean, in Very Good+, dust jacket with small stain to verso of front cover. 2002. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226721248 9780226721248 [US]

University of Chicago Press, Date: 2002-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2002. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226721248 9780226721248 [US]

New. In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women", a group of primarily urban middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home. Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of these famous new women active in journalism and the theatre, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newspaper "La Fronde"; the journalists Severine and Gyp; and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Roberts demonstrates how the tolerance for playacting in both these arenas allowed new women to stage acts that profoundly disrupted accepted gender roles. The existence of "La Fronde" itself was such an act, because it demonstrated that women could write just as well about the same subjects as men - even about the volatile Dreyfus Affair. When female reporters for "La Fronde" put on disguises to get a scoop or wrote under a pseudonym, and when actresses played men on stage, they demonstrated that gender identities were not fixed or natural, but inherently unstable. Thanks to the adventures of new women like ...

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[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

ISBN10: 0226721248, ISBN13: 9780226721248, [publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr] Hardcover 1st edition. 364 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]