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Dressing Modern Frenchwomen

Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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Dressing Modern Frenchwomen

Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

At a glance, high fashion and feminism seem unlikely partners. Between the First and Second World Wars, however, these forces combined femininity and modernity to create the new, modern French woman. In this engaging study, Mary Lynn Stewart reveals the fashion industry as an integral part of women's transition into modernity. Analyzing what female columnists in fashion magazines and popular women novelists wrote about the "new silhouette," Stewart shows how bourgeois women feminized the more severe, masculine images that elite designers promoted to create a hybrid form of modern that both emancipated women and celebrated their femininity. She delves into the intricacies of marketing the new clothes and the new image to middle-class women and examines the nuts and bolts of a changing industry—including textile production, relationships between suppliers and department stores, and privacy and intellectual property issues surrounding ready-to-wear couture designs. Dressing Modern Frenchwomen draws from thousands of magazine covers, advertisements, fashion columns, and features to uncover and untangle the fascinating relationships among the fashion industry, the development of modern marketing techniques, and the evolution of the modern woman as active, mobile, and liberated.

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1421429225

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9781421429229

For Health and Beauty

Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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For Health and Beauty

Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s

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She then examines compulsory education in hygiene and gymnastics, the flourishing genre of women's medical and sexual self-help literature, and the commercialization of health, beauty, and fitness products - all contributing to new scientific and commercial representations of the female body.

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0801864836

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9780801864834

Women, Work, and the French State

Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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Women, Work, and the French State

Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

Stewart traces the implementation of these laws in factories with an examination of the work of the predominantly bourgeois inspectors and their relations with employers and workers. She shows how employers and workers alike at first evaded, then slowly adjusted to the restrictive legislation. By identifying the curious mixture of reformers involved - including union organizers and enlightened employers, socialists and Social Catholics - and investigating the motives behind their campaign for protective labour legislation in France, Stewart reveals that these laws were conceived as barriers to exclude women from male job monopolies.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773562052

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9780773562059

Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press. Yet, while they undeniably opened doors for the next generations of educated women, sexist hiring practices, assumptions about women’s aptitudes as reporters, and more subtle gender biases continued to saturate the industry in the decades that followed. Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940 investigates the careers and written work of ten women who regularly reported in the national, Paris-based dailies. Addressing the role of mentorship, family connections, gendered behaviours, reporting styles, and subject matter, Mary Lynn Stewart debunks lingering essentialist notions about women’s entry into journalism. She shows that struggling newspapers, attempting to reverse declining circulation, hired women to cover subjects that expanded to include international relations, colonial conflicts, trials, local politics, and social problems. Through content analysis, deixis, and systematic comparisons of several women and men reporting on the same or different events, she further queries claims about a feminine style, finding more similarities than differences between masculine and feminine reporting. Documenting the persistence of gender discrimination in the hiring, assigning, and assessment of women reporters in the French daily press, Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940 demonstrates that, through the support of their female colleagues, women managed to succeed despite a variety of challenges.

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0773554017

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Civilization without Sexes

Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927

By: Mary Louise Roberts

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Civilization without Sexes

Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927

By: Mary Louise Roberts

In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on sexology, and vocational literature, Roberts discovers a central question: how to come to terms with rapid economic, social, and cultural change and articulate a new order of social relationships. She examines the role of French trauma concerning the War in legislative efforts to ban propaganda for abortion and contraception, and explains anxieties about the decline of maternity by a crisis in gender relations that linked soldiery, virility, and paternity. Through these debates, Roberts locates the seeds of actual change. She shows how the willingness to entertain, or simply the need to condemn, nontraditional gender roles created an indecisiveness over female identity that ultimately subverted even the most conservative efforts to return to traditional gender roles and irrevocably altered the social organization of gender in postwar France.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226721272

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Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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For Health and Beauty

Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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Dressing Modern Frenchwomen

Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939

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Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939

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Women, Work, and the French State

Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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Science and Health

With Key to the Scriptures

By: Mary Baker Eddy

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Science and Health

With Key to the Scriptures

By: Mary Baker Eddy

First published in 1875 and read by more than eight million people, this nondenominational book has a 119-year history of healing and inspiration. To attract a new audience, this time-honored message of healing has a powerful new cover, easy-to-read page layout, and word index. Named one of "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World".

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187864100X

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Disruptive Acts

The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France

By: Mary Louise Roberts

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The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France

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All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home.".

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Dressing Modern Frenchwomen

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For Health and Beauty

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Women, Work, and the French State

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Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940

Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940

Civilization without Sexes

Civilization without Sexes

Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910-1940

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For Health and Beauty

For Health and Beauty

Dressing Modern Frenchwomen

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Women, Work, and the French State

Women, Work, and the French State

Science and Health

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Disruptive Acts

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