Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman

"In this entertaining academic history of these rival magazines, Mesch . . . explores the emergence of the working woman in France." —Publishers Weekly

At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having It All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to the early 1900s in France. The first two photographic magazines aimed at women, Femina and La Vie Heureuse created a female role model who cou...