Day 7 - Sex and Gender in the Belle Epoch

Presentation Topic

Images of Gender

Gender Roles of Women

• Karen Offen, “in William B.

  Jean Beraud, The Box by the Stalls (1883)

   Cohen,  The Transformation of Modern France (Houghton Mifflin: Boston. 1996), pp. 125-126, 128– 131.
  • “Women, Citizenship, and Suffrage in France Since 1789”

• Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 88-89, 90-97, 99.
  • Women's Rights
  • Women's Work and Education
  • Underwear and Personal Hygene

• Rosalind Williams, Dream Worlds,

  • "Dreams of Love and Wealth" (Consumerism and gender images)

• Paul Smith, Impressionism and the Impressionists

  • Feminist Interpretations of Impressionism

• Mary McAuliffe, Paris, City of Dreams:Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann,and the Creation of Paris, pp.109-111

• Bourgeois Respectability and the Female Artist

• National Gallery of Art, Picturing France, 1830–1900

  • Manet's Presentation of Women at the Opera

• Victorian Paris: Gender and Class

• • Paris Downstairs: The upper servants
  • Paris Downstairs: La femme de ménage
  • Paris Downstairs: Breasts for hire
  • Paris Downstairs : La soubrette

• Images of Women

• Threatening Women

• Gender Roles of Men

  Robert Nye, “The Culture of the Sword: Manliness and Fencing in the Third Republic” from Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 148-153, 160-161.

  • Masculinity and the Revival of Dueling in France
  • The Glorification of Dueling (1)
  • The Roots of Honor in 19th Century France (2)
  • The Emergence of a Cult of Honor (3)

  Sexual Harassment in the Streets of Paris

  Marriage

  Blog Posts on Marriage

  • Without a Dowry: The business of marriage

  • The marriage market

  Sexuality

  Christopher Thompson, “Un troisième sexe? Les bourgeoises et la bicyclette dans la France fin de siècle, Le Mouvement social, No. 192 (July-September 2000), pp.9-14, 16-18, 26.

  • Gender and Bicycles -- Over View (1)
  • Gender, Bicycles, and National Security (2)
  • Bicycles and Gender Anxiety (3)

  Raymond Rudorff, Belle Epoque

  • French Attitudes Towards Sexuality in the late 19th Century
  • Courtesans and Prostitutes

  Students and their Mistresses

  • Passages from Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  Manet's Nana

     Fae Brauer, “Flaunting Manliness: Republican Masculinity, Virilised Homosexuality and the Desirable Male Body,”

  • Male Bodies, Homosexuality, and the German Threat

Robert Nye, “The Culture of the Sword: Manliness and Fencing in the Third Republic” from Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp.119-121.

• Attitudes Towards Male Homosexuality in 19th Century France
• Literary presentations of Male Homosexuality