Belle Epoque? women in French society and culture, 1890-1914

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-333) and index.

1. New republic, new women? : feminism and modernity at the belle epoque / Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr -- 2. 1890-1914 : a 'belle epoque' for feminism? / Maire Cross -- 3. Marguerite Durand and La Fronde : voicing women of the belle epoque / Maggie Allison -- 4. The uncompromising doctor Madeleine Pelletier : feminist and political activist / Anna Norris -- 5. Clans and chronologies : the salon of Natalie Barney / Melanie Hawthorne -- 6. Velo-Metro-Auto : women's mobility in belle epoque Paris / Sian Reynolds -- 7. Popularising new women in belle epoque advertising posters / Ruth E. Iskin -- 8. An American in Paris : Loie Fuller, dance and technology / Naoko Morita -- 9. Becoming women : cinema, gender and technology / Elizabeth Ezra -- 10. Spectacles of themselves : women writing for the stage in belle epoque France / Kimberly van Noort -- 11. Being a dancer in 1900 : sign of alienation or quest for autonomy? / Helene Laplace-Claverie -- 12. Visions of reciprocity in the work of Camille Claudel / Angela Ryan -- 13. Feminist discourse in women's novels of professional development / Juliette M. Rogers -- 14. Daniel Lesueur and the feminist romance / Diana Holmes -- 15. Virginal perversion/radical subversion : Rachilde and discourses of legitimation / Jeri English -- 16. Decadence and the woman writer : Renee Vivien's Une femme m'apparut / Tama Lea Engelking -- 17. Sensual deviations and verbal abuse : Anna de Noailles in the critic's eye / Catherine Perry -- 18. Proletarian women, proletarian writing : the case of Marguerite Audoux / Angela Kershaw -- 19. Coloniser and colonised in Hubertine Auclert's writings on Algeria / Edith Taieb -- 20. The chivalrous coloniser : colonial feminism and the roman a these in the belle epoque / Jennifer Yee -- 21. Marcelle Tinayre's Notes d'une voyageuse en Turquie : creating solidarity among women / Margot Irvine.