Daughters of Eve : A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle.
Berlanstein, Lenard R.
Daughters of Eve : A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (315 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789 -- 3. Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815 -- 4. Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- 5. The Erotic Culture of the Stage -- 6. The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- 7. Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914 -- 8. Performing a Self -- 9. From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next.
9780674020818
Women in the theater-France-History-19th century.
Women in the theater-France-History-18th century.
Actresses-France-Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2622
Daughters of Eve : A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (315 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789 -- 3. Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815 -- 4. Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- 5. The Erotic Culture of the Stage -- 6. The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- 7. Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914 -- 8. Performing a Self -- 9. From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. Berlanstein argues that the public image of actresses was shaped by the political climate and ruling ideology; thus they were deified in one era and damned in the next.
9780674020818
Women in the theater-France-History-19th century.
Women in the theater-France-History-18th century.
Actresses-France-Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2622