Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France

摘要: In fin-de-siecle 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 objects intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, took up professions medicine law, journalism teaching. All them challenged traditional notions womanhood by living unconventional lives doing supposedly "masculine" work outside home. Mary Louise Roberts examines constellation these famous new active theatre, including Marguerite Durand, founder women's newspaper "La Fronde"; journalists Severine Gyp; actress Sarah Bernhardt. demonstrates how tolerance for playacting both arenas allowed to stage acts that profoundly disrupted accepted roles. The existence Fronde" itself was such act, because it demonstrated could write just well about same subjects men - even volatile Dreyfus Affair. When female reporters put on disguises get scoop or wrote under pseudonym, when actresses played stage, they identities not fixed natural, but inherently unstable. Thanks adventures like these, conventional domestic femininity exposed choice, destiny. Lively, sophisticated persuasive, "Disruptive Acts" should be major historians, also scholars cultural studies, studies theatre.