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Napoleon and the Woman Question - Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815 (Hardcover)
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Napoleon and the Woman Question - Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815 (Hardcover)
Series: Fashioning the Eighteenth Century Series
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'The Emperor did not consider women the weaker sex. In fact, they
were strong, perhaps too strong. With their tears or their allure,
they could control a man...They were autonomous beings who could
move around the system, interject themselves into it at the right
moment, and further the cause of women without being unduly
noticed. For womans nature, what mattered was la difference' -
Susan P. Conner, from the Foreword. Women under the Napoleonic
regime have been largely neglected by historians. Through recovered
discourses and other primary sources, in ""Napoleon and the Woman
Question"" June K. Burton uncovers the strategies that Napoleonic
women employed to control their lives. She begins with an analysis
of Napoleons personal attitudes about the nature of women. He did
not view them as weak vessels, but rather as industrious and
strong, with an important role: as wives and mothers. She discusses
Frances first national system of midwifery education, womens issues
in Napoleonic textbooks, the infanticide controversy, and the
prevailing view of the relationship between the physical and the
moral in feminine bodies and minds. In addition, she explores
womens medicine and surgery of the time with narratives from two
patients, Adrienne Noailles Lafayette and Francis Burney dArblay.
By clarifying the tensions and ambiguities of the Napoleonic
period, Burton provides a nuanced approach to
late-eighteenth-century and Napoleonic studies. June K. Burton is
associate professor emerita of history at the University of Akron
and an associate editor of Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic
France, 17991815. Napoleon and Clio (1979) established her
reputation as an expert on Napoleonic historiography and
bibliography.
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