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Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France

Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France

Accampo, Elinor

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralPolitical BiographiesFrench History

ISBN10: 0801884047
ISBN13: 9780801884047
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Nelly Roussel (1878-1922)--the first feminist spokeswoman for birth control in Europe--challenged both the men of early twentieth-century France, who sought to preserve the status quo, and the women who aimed to change it. She delivered her messages through public lectures, journalism, and theater, dazzling audiences with her beauty, intelligence, and disarming wit. She did so within the context of a national depopulation crisis caused by the confluence of low birth rates, the rise of international tensions, and the tragedy of the First World War. While her support spread across social classes, strong political resistance to her message revealed deeply conservative precepts about gender which were grounded in French identity itself.

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