Practiced Citizenship

Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France

Nimisha Barton, Richard S. Hopkins (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

330 Seiten

2019
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0666-4 (ISBN)

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Over fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-states, arguing that it proceeded in three stages: from civil rights, to political rights, and finally to social rights. The shortcomings of this model were clear to feminist scholars. As political theorist Carol Pateman argued, the modern social contract undergirding nation-states was from the start premised on an implicit “sexual contract.” According to Pateman, the birth of modern democracy necessarily resulted in the political erasure of women.

Since the 1990s feminist historians have realized that Marshall’s typology failed to describe adequately developments that affected women in France. An examination of the role of women and gender in welfare-state development suggested that social rights rooted in republican notions of womanhood came early and fast for women in France even while political and economic rights would continue to lag behind. While their considerable access to social citizenship privileges shaped their prospects, the absence of women’s formal rights still dominates the conversation. Practiced Citizenship offers a significant rereading of that narrative.

Through an analysis of how citizenship was lived, practiced, and deployed by women in France in the modern period, Practiced Citizenship demonstrates how gender normativity and the resulting constraints placed on women nevertheless created opportunities for a renegotiation of the social and sexual contract.

Nimisha Barton is the associate director of the Freshman Scholars Institute and Programs for Access and Inclusion at Princeton University. Richard S. Hopkins is an assistant professor of history at Widener University. He is the author of Planning the Greenspaces of Nineteenth-Century Paris.

List of Illustrations
Preface - JOHNSON KENT WRIGHT
Introduction - NIMISHA BARTON and RICHARD HOPKINS
1. “Patriotic Discipline”: Cloistered Behinds, Public Judgment, and Female Violence in Revolutionary Paris - KATIE JARVIS
2. Restoring the Royal Family: Marie-Thérèse and the Family Politics of the Early Restoration - VICTORIA E. THOMPSON
3. Gender, Immigration and the Everyday Practice of Social Citizenship - NIMISHA BARTON
4. Hospital Policies, Family Agency, and Mothers at l’Hôpital Sainte-Eugénie, 1855-1875 - STEPHANIE MCBRIDE-SCHREINER
5. “Illustrations as Good as Any Slides”: Women’s Activist Social Novels and the French Search for Social Reform, 1880-1914 - JEAN ELISABETH PEDERSEN
6. “French Girls are the Most Desired”: Organizing Against the White Slave Trade in the Belle Epoque - ELIZA EARLE FERGUSON
7. Vérine, the Ecole des Parents, and the Politics of the Gender, Reaction, and the Family, 1929-1944 - CHERYL A. KOOS
8. Politics, Money, and Distrust: French-American Alliances in the International Campaign for Women’s Equal Rights, 1925–1930 - SARA L. KIMBLE
Afterword - ELINOR A. ACCAMPO

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	6 illustrations, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4962-0666-5 / 1496206665
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-0666-4 / 9781496206664
Zustand	Neuware