Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 1-18

3. “Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!” The New Woman and the Debate over Female Honor

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 19-56

4. The Sexual Insult: Medicalized Views of Singleness during the Long Nineteenth Century

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 57-88

5. Rethinking Honor in the Republican Family: Fin-de-Siècle Divorce Suits

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 89-126

6. The Honor of a Name: Marital Status, Property, and the Patronymic

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 127-162

7. The Feminist Politics of the Female Surplus: Constructing Citizenship through Singleness

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 163-192

8. Sexual Citizenship and the Political Culture of Shame in the Women’s Movement

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 193-233

9. Conclusion: Giving the Lie

   • Andrea Mansker

   Pages 234-249

10. Back Matter

    Pages 250-310

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A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities.

• France
• Third Republic
• women

• Sewanee: The University of the South, USA

  Andrea Mansker

ANDREA MANSKER is Associate Professor of History at Sewanee: University of the South, USA. She recently contributed to the volume edited by Elinor Accampo and Christopher E. Forth, Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender (2010).

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