The Third Republic, known as the "belle epoque," 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. Diana Holmes is Professor of
French at the University of Leeds, UK. She has published widely on
French women writers, including Colette, Rachilde, Renee Vivien,
and bestselling romantic authors of the Belle Epoque. Her recent
publications include Rachilde Decadence Gender and the Woman Writer
(Berg, 2001), and she is working on a study of romance in 20th
century France. Carrie Tarr is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, Kingston, UK. She has published extensively on
gender and ethnicity in French cinema. Her recent publications
include Cinema and the Second Sex: Women's Filmmaking in France in
the 1980s and 1990s (with B. Rollet, 2001) and Reframing
Difference: beur and banlieue cinema in France (2005).
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