Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France
- ISBN-10
- 0801884047
- ISBN-13
- 9780801884047
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-09-08
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Elinor Accampo
Description
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. In this thoughtful and provocative study, Elinor Accampo follows Roussel's life from her youth, marriage, speaking career, motherhood, and political activism to her decline and death from tuberculosis in the years following World War I. She tells the story of a woman whose life and work spanned a historical moment when womanhood was being redefined by the acceptance of a woman's sexuality as distinct from her biological, reproductive role—a development that is still causing controversy today.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2006-09-08
- 336 pages
- Ebook
- JHU Press
Similar books
-
Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
By Chelsea ConaboyIt changed the nature of the home: Meyers, Rediscovering Eve, 52, 121; Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ...
-
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
By Andrea O'ReillyReligion and Cultural Taboos Jamaica has a diverse religious legacy, with Christianity currently the dominant religion. In the Pentecostal Church, ... “Jamaica,” In Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices, Robert Groelsema, ed.
-
How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children
By Rachel ChrastilChenais, Demographic Transition, 111; Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 3.
-
Practiced Citizenship: Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France
By Richard S. Hopkins, Nimisha Barton... even among mainstream feminists, but she certainly incurred the wrath of pronatalists and Senator René Berenger and the likes of people such as Vérine. Elinor A. Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the ...
-
Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920
By Karen OffenOn Lesueur, see Diana Holmes, “Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance,” in A 'Belle Epoque'? ... in “Recherches expérimentales sur les signes physiques de l'intelligence,” extr. de La Revue de Philosophie (La Chapelle-Montigeon, 1904), ...
-
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 1, The Nineteenth Century
By Peter E. Gordon, Warren BreckmanJennifer Waelti-Walters and Steven C. Hause (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 242; and Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: ...
-
Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France
By Kevin J. Callahan, Sarah Ann CurtisOn the racial (and sexual) hierarchies in Southeast Asia, see Ann Laura Stoler, Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870–1979 (New Haven ct: Yale University Press, 1985); and Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and ...
-
Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe
By Linda L. ClarkMcNamara, Jo Ann Kay. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. Midgley, Clare. Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780–1870. London: Routledge, 1992.
-
Women's medicine: Sex, family planning and British female doctors in transnational perspective, 1920–70
By Caroline RusterholzAccampo, E., Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics ... Al-Gailani, S., '“The mothers of England object”: public health, privacy and professional ethics in the early twentieth-century debate over the ...
-
Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923
By Matthew Stibbe, Ingrid Sharp... return to “normality”, even as they hoped to win some new rights retrospectively, the thwarting of these hopes would give the victory of 1918 a bitter-sweet taste Accampo, e (2006) Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit. Nelly Roussel and.