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Item Details
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WOMEN'S WORDS
ESSAY ON FRENCH SINGULARITY |
| By: |
Mona Ozouf, Jane Marie Todd (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226643336 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226643335 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 January, 1998 |
| Pages: |
318 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Argues that French feminism lacks the rancour and resentment of its counterpart in America, and explains why this brand of feminism is uniquely French. This study uses the woman's portrait, traditionally a male genre, to portray ten French women of letters from the French Revolution onwards. |
| Synopsis: |
This study argues that French feminism lacks the rancour and resentment of its counterparts in England and America and explains why this placid, even timid, brand of feminism is uniquely French. Ozouf uses the woman's portrait, traditionally a male genre, to portray ten French women of letters whose lives span the period from the eve of the French Revolution to the resurgence of the feminist movement in the late 20th century. She studies the letters and memoirs of Mme du Deffand, Mme de Charriere, Mme Roland, Mme de Stael, Mme de Remusat, George Sand, Hubertine Auclert, Colette, Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir. Rejecting the male constructions of femininity typical of this genre, Ozouf restores these women's voices in order to study their own often-conflicting attitudes toward education, marriage, motherhood, sex, and work, as well as the dilemma of writing in a literary world that did not support women's work. The author claims that a uniquely-French feminism informed these women's lives, one that stems from the great egalitarian spirit of the French Revolution and is more tolerant of difference than its American counterparts.She argues that as a result, modern French culture has not isolated women from men in the same way that American and British cultures have done. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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