Day 11 - Sex and Gender in the Belle Epoch
Task -- To define some of the assumptions and values associated with gender and sexuality by different groups in Paris in the Late 19th Century
Gender Roles of Women
Karen Offen, “Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage in France Since 1789” in William B. Cohen, The Transformation of Modern France (Houghton Mifflin: Boston. 1996), pp. 125-126, 128– 131.
Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 88-89, 90-97, 99.
Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds, "Dreams of Love and Wealth" (Consumerism and gender images)
Paul Smith, Impressionism and the Impressionists, Feminist Interpretations of Impressionism
Images of Women
Gender Roles of Men
Robert Nye, “The Culture of the Sword: Manliness and Fencing in the Third Republic” from Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 148-153, 160-161.
- Masculinity and the Revival of Dueling in France
- The Glorification of Dueling (1)
- The Roots of Honor in 19th Century France (2)
- The Emergence of a Cult of Honor (3)
Sexual Harassment in the Streets of Paris
Marriage
Blog Posts on Marriage
Sexuality
Christopher Thompson, “Un troisième sexe? Les bourgeoises et la bicyclette dans la France fin de siècle, Le Mouvement social, No. 192 (July-September 2000), pp.9-14, 16-18, 26.
- Gender and Bicycles -- Over View (1)
- Gender, Bicycles, and National Security (2)
- Bicycles and Gender Anxiety (3)
Raymond Rudorff, Belle Epoque
Descriptions of Prostitution
Jean Beraud, The Box by the Stalls (1883)