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The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 38
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The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 38 Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Jo Burr Margadant (Editor)


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The New Biography looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. All of these women-activists, writers, and philosophers-became controversial figures who challenged conventional notions of femininity in their time. By showing how these women deliberately created their public lives, Jo Burr Margadant and her colleagues demonstrate the rich rewards of the new methods in biography.

In her introduction Margadant gives a brilliant explanation of the new biography and how it fits into recent and current debates about the writing of history. Each essay that follows connects the lives of the women it discusses with major themes in French history. The famous activist Flora Tristan, the feminist journalist Marguerite Durand, and a leading advocate of birth control, Nelly Roussell, are just a few of the fascinating women brought to life in this book.

Because these stories often expose the cracks in what has been seen as a monolithic separation of gendered spheres in nineteenth-century bourgeois France, they challenge historians to rethink assumptions about the history of this period. The New Biography thus joins a body of work that brings women from the margins of the historical record into history's mainstream.

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After an exceedingly shaky start, interrupted by the brief return of Napoleon in 1815, the restored Bourbon dynasty managed to hold onto the throne of France for a mere decade and a half.

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The New Biography looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. All of the these women -- activists, writers, and philosophers -- became controversial figures who challenged conventional notions of femininity in their time. Their stories are therefore particularly well suited to the philosophical premises and narrative strategies associated with the experimentation currently under way in biographical writing. By showing how these women deliberately created their public lives -- how they "fashioned" themselves into celebrities -- Jo Burr Margadant and her colleagues demonstrate the rich rewards of the new methods in biography.

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  • Title The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 38
  • Author Jo Burr Margadant (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-09-04
  • ISBN 9780520221413 / 0520221419
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.03 x 0.8 in (23.01 x 15.32 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women authors, French - 19th century, Feminists - France
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99048288
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

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  • Choice, 02/01/2001, Page 1155

About the author

Jo Burr Margadant is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is author of the prizewinning Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic (1990).
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