Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's by Rachel Mesch

By Rachel Mesch

instantly deeply historic and strangely well timed, Having all of it within the Belle Epoque exhibits how the debates that proceed to captivate high-achieving girls in the USA and Europe should be traced again to the early 1900s in France. the 1st photographic magazines aimed toward girls, Femina and La Vie Heureuse created a feminine function version who may well stability age-old conference with new equalities. usually noted easily because the "modern woman," this alluring determine embodied the hopes and desires in addition to the main urgent inner conflicts of enormous numbers of French girls in the course of what was once a interval of profound swap. filled with never-before-studied photos of the fashionable French lady in motion, Having it All exhibits how those early magazines exploited new photographic applied sciences, inventive currents, and literary developments to create a strong version of French femininity, one who has exerted an enduring effect on French expression.
This e-book introduces and explores the concept that of Belle Epoque literary feminism, a fabricated from the elite milieu from which the magazines emerged. outlined through its refusal of political engagement, this feminism used to be however preoccupied with increasing women's roles, because it labored to build a collective fable of girl fulfillment. via an astute combination of ancient examine, literary feedback, and visible research, Mesch's examine of women's magazines and the preferred writers linked to them bargains an unique window onto a bygone period which may function a framework for ongoing debates approximately feminism, femininity, and work-life tensions.

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