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Article: Disruptive Acts. The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Book review)
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- French Forum
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- September 22, 2005
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Mary Louise Roberts. Disruptive Acts. The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 332 pp.
Mary Louise Roberts' rich and insightful recent study of the New Woman in fin-de-siecle France offers a fresh perspective on a figure whose significance for the history of feminist activism has until now been troublingly elusive. The New Woman was largely a product of France's thriving mass print culture, which provided endless images of this larger-than-life, dangerously spunky, rebellious and independent woman. As Roberts argues, in her caricatured form, the New Woman manifests a profound socio-cultural anxiety surrounding changing ...