Table of Contents

List of tables, Preface, Introduction, PART 1 (1789–1815). Redefining women’s sphere, 1. Defining womanhood: the legacy of the Enlightenment, 2. The rights of man and the rights of woman: women and the French Revolution, 3. Revolutionary aftermath: the reconstruction of the gender order, PART II. (1815–50) Public man, private woman?, 4. ‘Angels of the hearth’? leisured ladies and the limits of domesticity, 5. Labouring women: work, family and community in the classes populaires, 6. Femmes nouvelles: feminists, socialists and republicans in the Romantic era, PART III. (1850–80) Discourses on ‘woman’, 7. Femininity: constructions, consequence, control, 8. Representations of the ouvrière: the discourse on female labour, 9. Reformulating the ‘woman question’: from literary polemics to organised feminism, PART IV. (1880–1914) Gender relations in crisis?, 10. A new Eve? bourgeois women in the belle époque, 11. Gender at work: women workers and the sexual division of labour, 12. In search of citizenship: feminists and women’s suffrage, Epilogue: France and feminism, Notes, Bibliography, Index