Daughters of Eve

A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siècle

Lenard R. Berlanstein

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    1 Setting the Scene

    2 Theater Women and Aristocratic Libertinism, 1715-1789

    3 Defining the Modern Gender Order, 1760-1815

    4 Magdalenes of Postaristocratic France, 1815-1848

    5 The Erotic Culture of the Stage

    6 The Struggle against Pornocracy, 1848-1880

    7 Imagining Republican Actresses, 1880-1914

    8 Performing a Self

    9 From Notorious Women to Intimate Strangers

    Conclusion

    Notes

    Index

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Lenard R. Berlanstein is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.