A Belle Epoque? - (Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections) by Diana Holmes & Carrie Tarr (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> The Third Republic, known as the 'belle époque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new seventh art of cinema. This book explores all these facets of the period, weaving them into a complex, multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women's history.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <i>"...this volume makes a welcome contribution to the history of women, gender, and feminism...The essays, while brief, suggest interesting lines for further inquiry based on their creative use of printed sources..., as well as visual materials."</i><b> - H-France Review</b></p> <p> <i>"...many of the essays are extremely interesting and historians will find them valuable. The book's brief conclusion emphasizes the achievements of the Belle Epoque: it altered 'the sense of what it was to be a woman' (307). Women did have a 'Belle Epoque', it seems, albeit a different one from men."</i><b> - European History Quarterly</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <b>Carrie Tarr</b> is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kingston University London. She has published extensively on gender and ethnicity in French cinema. Her recent publications include <i>Cinema and the Second Sex: Women's Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and1990s</i> (with B. Rollet, 2001) and <i>Reframing Difference: beur and banlieue cinema in France</i> (2005).</p>
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