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Blessed motherhood, bitter fruit : Nelly Roussel and the politics of female pain in Third Republic France

Author
Accampo, Elinor Ann.
Title
Blessed motherhood, bitter fruit : Nelly Roussel and the politics of female pain in Third Republic France / Elinor Accampo.
Format
Book
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Description
xii, 312 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
URL
<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005033501.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2005033501-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2005033501-d.html <Book review (H-Net)> http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f4c4-aa
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.
Contents
  • Conversion experiences
  • Mother and missionary: the ideological foundations of an unorthodox feminism
  • The making and marketing of a spectacular apostle
  • The public and private politics of female self-sacrifice: audience reception
  • Pathologies and persecutions
  • The Great War: pacifism, censorship, and the disease of a "weary, wounded heart"
  • Last battles: words of combat, hope, and pain.
Subject headings
Roussel, Nelly, 1878-1922.
Kinsey subjects
Status of women history--France. Contraception. Biographies of women.
ISBN
0801884047 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801884047 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
923.6 R68 a3 2006
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute