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"In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new woman," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered non-traditional marriages, and some took up with 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 famous new women active in journalism and the theater, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newpaper La Fronde; the journalists Severine and Gyp; and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Roberts demonstrates how the tolerance for play acting 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 these, conventional domestic femininity was exposed as a choice, not a destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
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Feminism, History, Influence, Intellectual life, Sex role, Bernhardt, sarah, 1844-1923, Dreyfus, alfred, 1859-1935, France, intellectual life, Duras, marguerite, 1914-1996, France, history, 19th centuryPeople
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), Gyp (1849-1932), Marguerite Durand (1864-1936), Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), Séverine (1855-1929)Places
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An analysis of changing gender roles in late 19th/early 20th century France, emphasizing areas — theater, journalism — in which New Women could more easily perform traditional male behaviors.
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