TY - BOOK ID - 18021784 TI - Disruptive acts : the new woman in fin-de-siècle France PY - 2002 SN - 0226721248 9780226721248 9780226721255 0226721256 PB - Chicago The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Feminism KW - Sex role KW - History KW - CDL KW - 305 KW - Féminisme KW - Rôle selon le sexe KW - Histoire KW - Durand, Marguerite, KW - Bernhardt, Sarah, KW - Gyp, KW - Séverine, KW - Dreyfus, Alfred, KW - Influence. KW - France KW - Intellectual life KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Emancipation of women KW - Feminist movement KW - Women KW - Women's lib KW - Women's liberation KW - Women's liberation movement KW - Women's movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-feminism KW - Emancipation KW - Draifus, Alfred, KW - Drayfūs, Alfrīd, KW - Drīfūs, Alfrīd, KW - Dreĭfus, Alifred, KW - Dreĭfus, Alʹfred, KW - Dreyfus, Alfredo, KW - דרייפוס, אלפרד KW - דרייפוס, אלפרד, KW - דרייפוס, אלפרעד, KW - דרײפוס, אלפרד, KW - Bernar, Sara, KW - Bernhardt, Rosine Bernard Damala, KW - בערנארד, שרה KW - ברנאר, שרה KW - Beṛnarě, Saṛa, KW - Bernard, Henriette-Rosine, KW - Divine Sarah KW - Guébhard, Caroline Rémy, KW - Guébhard, Caroline, KW - Rémy, Caroline, KW - Martel de Janville, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau, KW - Mirabeau, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de, KW - Mirabeau, Gabrielle de, KW - Riquetti de Mirabeau, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de, KW - Martel, Gabrielle de Mirabeau, KW - Gyp KW - Martel de Janville, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau KW - de Mirabeau, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti KW - Mirabeau, Gabrielle de KW - de Riquetti de Mirabeau, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie-Antoinette KW - de Martel, Gabrielle de Mirabeau KW - Dreyfus, Alfred KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18021784 AB - "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."--Jacket. ER -