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Informationen zum Autor Karen Offen received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, California and is a historian and independent scholar affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Klappentext A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic. Zusammenfassung Karen Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around relations between women and men! how they are constructed! and how they should be organized or reorganized! that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors during the French Third Republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis General introduction: 'what do women want?' and quotations; Part I. Familiarization: Romance with the Republic, 1870s?89: 1. Relaunching the Republican campaign for women's rights: 2. Educators, medical and social scientists, and population experts debate the woman question, 1870?89; 3: The politics of the family, women's work, and public morality, 1870?90; 4. The revolutionary centennial: promoting women and women's rights at the 1889 International Exposition in Paris; Part II. Encounter: the Third Republic Faces Feminist Claims, 1890?00: Quotations and introductory remarks; 5. The birth and 'take-off' of feminism in republican France; 6: Rights or protection for working women?; 7. Must maternity be women's form of patriotism? 8. The new century greets the woman question, 1900; Part III. Climax: Mainstreaming the Woman Question, 1901?14: Quotations and introductory remarks; 9. Building a force to reckon with the Republic: The Conseil National des Femmes Fran?ises and its allies, 1900?14; 10. Defining, historicizing, contesting, and defending feminism: early 20th century developments; 11. Refocusing the state: depopulation, maternity, and the quest for a woman-friendly state; 12. Emerging labor issues: equal pay for equal work, travail ? domicile, and women's right to work; 13. 'The alpha and omega of our demands' ? the women's suffrage campaigns heat up, 1906?14; Part IV. Anti-Climax: the Great War and its Aftermath: Quotations and introductory remarks; 14. The Great War and the woman question; 15. 'Half the human race': epilogue and conclusion; Afterword; Appendix: important dates for the woman question debates; Index....
