Having it all in the Belle Epoque : how French women's magazines invented the modern woman

Having it all in the Belle Epoque : how French women's magazines invented the modern woman / Rachel Mesch.

At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having it All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to the early 1900s in France. The first two photographic magazines aimed at women, Femina and La Vie Heu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mesch, Rachel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women's periodicals, French > France > History > 20th century.
French literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminist literature > France > History and criticism.
Feminism > France > History > 20th century.
Femininity in literature.
Women in literature.
Femininity in art.
Women in art.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > French.
Femininity in art
Femininity in literature
Feminism
Feminist literature
French literature > Women authors
Women in art
Women in literature
Women's periodicals, French
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Femina, La vie heureuse and the invention of the femme moderne
  • Chères lectrices : Cinderella powder, poet queens and the woman reader
  • Beyond the bluestocking : images of work-life balance in the Belle Epoque
  • The 'oriental' authoress : Myriam Harry and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
  • The writer writes back
  • A new man for the new woman? : Belle Epoque literary feminism and the French marriage plot
  • Jean Lorrain's women's magazine : Emma Bovary meets celebrity culture
  • A Belle Epoque media storm : Marcelle Tinayre and the Legion of Honor
  • Conclusion : imagining the académicienne.

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