Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France
A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal hono...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2011, 2011
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Series: | Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities |
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Physical Description: | IX, 310 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9780230348196 |