Third Republic/Troisieme Republique (Nos. 3-4, Spring-Fall 1977)
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Issue numbers 3-4 (Spring-Fall 1977) of Third Republic/Troisieme Republique.
From Karen M. Offen:
This special issue' of Third Republic/Troisieme Republique has its origins in a survey I undertook in 1974, coincident with the Second Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and the founding of the Western Society for French History. My first aim was simply to identify all American historians investigating some aspect of the history of women and the family in France from medieval times to the twentieth century. My second aim was to provide a tool to be used by scholars who wished to contact one another, to profit from one another's work, and thereby overcome the isolation in which so many of us were working at the time. My third aim was to stimulate, insofar as it was possible, the sharing of hard-to-find source materials by historians on the Western side of the Atlantic.' An updated version of this survey was recently published in "Contemporary French Civilization," I (no. 2, Winter 1977).
The seven studies presented here complement each other in many ways. Four of the essays deal with the efforts of individuals or .small groups to analyze the position of women in French society and to organize reform efforts. Each of these papers is based on recently completed doctoral research and attests to its author's success in locating and consulting scarce printed sources and obscure archival materials in France, and in reconstructing individual biographies and organizational efforts. This is, of course, traditional historical work, and in each instance traditional methodology has produced very good results, paving the way for a comprehensive interpretation of feminist efforts in France. A fifth paper approaches the woman question from a different angle by analyzing the prescriptive literature directed at French girls of the popular classes by the pedagogues of the Third Republic. Here again, the sources are of a traditional sort, but they are analyzed as a collective body of literature according to criteria that have emerged only recently from our own sensitivity to
the importance of role-prescriptive messages transmitted to the masses by purveyors of "official" culture. The sixth paper applies the tools of quantitative analysis to study the social characteristics of the French senators who vetoed women suffrage, in 1922. The bibliographical essay presents an up-to-date overview of the scholarly literature pertinent to the history of women and the dynamics of male-female relationships in France during a period somewhat broader than that
covered by the collection. Concluding the volume, the lengthy bibliography of printed source materials on feminism and socialism during the early Third Republic offers historians an invaluable tool for future research.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Date created | 1977 |
Creators/Contributors
Publisher | Third Republic/Troisieme Republique | |
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Author | Offen, Karen M. | |
Author | Bidelman, Patrick Kay. | |
Author | Clark, Linda L. | |
Author | Sowerwine, Charles. | |
Author | Boxer, Marilyn J. | |
Author | Hunt, Persis. | |
Author | Hause, Steven C. |
Subjects
Subject | Third Republic/Troisieme Republique |
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Subject | History |
Subject | France > History > Periodicals |
Subject | France > History > Third Republic > 1870-1940 > Periodicals. |
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