A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities.
ISBN: | 9780230294035 |
Publication date: | 3rd October 2011 |
Author: | Andrea Mansker |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 310 pages |
Series: | Genders and Sexualities in History |
Genres: |
Social and cultural history Gender studies, gender groups European history History |