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Disruptive acts : the new woman in fin-de-siècle France by Mary Louise Roberts is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "mascul

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780226721248
Category
social science
Subjects
Science, History, Sociology
Updated
2026-03-24

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