Daughters of Eve [electronic resource] : a cultural history of French theater women from the Old Regime to the fin de siècle / Lenard R. Berlanstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.Description: x, 300 p. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Setting the scene -- Theater women and aristocratic libertinism, 1715-1789 -- Defining the modern gender order, 1760-1815 -- Magdalenes of postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- The erotic culture of the stage -- The struggle against pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- Imagining republican actresses, 1880-1914 -- Performing a self -- From notorious women to intimate strangers.
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Setting the scene -- Theater women and aristocratic libertinism, 1715-1789 -- Defining the modern gender order, 1760-1815 -- Magdalenes of postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- The erotic culture of the stage -- The struggle against pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- Imagining republican actresses, 1880-1914 -- Performing a self -- From notorious women to intimate strangers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-293) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2003. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.