A `Belle Epoque'?; women in French society and culture, 1890-1914.1845450213 A `Belle Epoque'?; women in French society and culture, 1890-1914. Ed. by Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr. Berghahn Books 2006 344 pages $75.00 Hardcover Polygons; cultural diversities and interactions; v.9 HQ1613 The Belle Epoque belle é·poque n. An era of artistic and cultural refinement in a society, especially in France at the beginning of the 20th century. [French : belle, beautiful + époque, era.] was a period of articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction CONTRADICTION. The incompatibility, contrariety, and evident opposition of two ideas, which are the subject of one and the same proposition. 2. In general, when a party accused of a crime contradicts himself, it is presumed he does so because he is guilty for between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. The papers demonstrate the many ways that women artists disproved the near- consensus that art was a masculine MASCULINE. That which belongs to the male sex. 2. The masculine sometimes includes the feminine, vide an example under the article Man, and see also the articles Gender, Worthiest of blood; Poth. Intr. au titre 16, des Testamens et Donations Testamentaires, n. activity. The contributors address such subjects as women's mobility in Belle Epoque Paris, Natalie Barney's salon Salon, annual exhibition of art works chosen by jury and presented by the French Academy since 1737; it was originally held in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre. By the mid-19th cent. the Salon had become an expression of conservative, established tastes in art. , and feminist discourse in women's novels of professional development. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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