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French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century SUNY Series On European Social History
author
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Moses, Claire Goldberg.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0873958608
print isbn13
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9780873958608
ebook isbn13
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9780585063799
language
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English
subject
Feminism--France--History--19th century.
publication date
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1984
lcc
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HQ1615.M67 1984eb
ddc
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305.4/2/0944
subject
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Feminism--France--History--19th century.
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French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
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SUNY Series in European Social History Leo A. Loubre, Editor
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French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Claire Goldberg Moses
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Cover photo courtesy of Bibl. Nat. Paris, Elections de 1849, Suffrage des femmes (artist unknown).
An abridged version of chapters 3 and 4 appeared in the Journal of Modern History 54 (June 1982) under the title "Saint Simonian Men/Saint-Simonian Women: The Transformation of Feminist Thought in 1830s' France."
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1984 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Moses, Claire Goldberg, 1941 French feminism in the nineteenth century.
(SUNY series in European social history) Bibliography: p. 281 1. FeminismFranceHistory19th century. I. Title. II. Title: French feminism in the 19th century. III. Series: SUNY series on European social history. HQ1615.M67 1984305.4'2'094483-18040 ISBN 0-87395-859-4 ISBN 0-87395-860-8 (pbk.)
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For Arnold, Lisa, and Leslie
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Contents
Preface
ix
Chapter 1 The Legacy of the Past: Patriarchy and Resistance
1
Chapter 2 Roots of Nineteenth-Century French Feminism: The Image and Reality of Womanhood
17
Chapter 3 The Saint-Simonian Vision: Creating a New World Order
41
Chapter 4 The Birth of an Autonomous Women's Movement
61
Chapter 5 Searching for Direction
89
Chapter 6 Feminist Activism during the Revolutionary Upheavals of 1848-1851
127
Chapter 7 La Querelle Des Femmes of the Second Empire
151
Chapter 8 The Reemergence of Feminist Activism
173
Chapter 9 Republican Feminism
197
Conclusion
229
Notes
239
Bibliography
281
Index
303
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Preface
This book is a study of the development of feminist thought in nineteenth-century France. Its focus is a body of ideas set into a social and political context, rather than a "pure" philosophical analysis. This approach derives from my belief that the questions feminists asked were based on their life experiences and that the remedies they proposed for their grievances were constructed with intellectual tools of analysis available to them in their time and place.
To place nineteenth-century French feminism in its historical context, I begin with a brief look at the pre-nineteenth-century history of the "woman question" in France, considering both the continued subordination of women and early feminist attempts to change that situation. The Revolutionary heritage was a particularly important influence on nineteenth-century feminism, both directly and indirectly. Nineteenth-century feminists were aware of the experience of earlier feminists and were inspired by their vision of emancipation; but nineteenth-century feminists' quite different ideology was also shaped by their knowledge of the violence of revolution and their fear of the Terror. While espousing Revolutionary egalitarian ideas, they conceptualized them in different ways and sought new methods to implement change, based on their concern for peace and social reconciliation.
The legacy of the French Revolution, briefly outlined in chapter 1, affected the evolution of feminism indirectly as well by shaping feminism's political context. Nineteenth-century French feminism existed in the shadow of repression. Governments, driven by their memory of the Revolution and the Terror, were slow to guarantee the right to free expression of new ideas. A continual shift from liberal to repressive to liberal to repressive government slowed the development of feminism; and it was often truly dangerous to espouse feminist views. Only as the Revolution receded into the more distant past and the fear of social unrest lessened somewhat was freedom of expression guaranteed by a secure and liberal republic, and only by the 1880s did feminism finally emerge from its start-and-stop
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