Blessed motherhood, bitter fruit Nelly Roussel and the politics of female pain in Third Republic France /

Accampo, Elinor Ann.

Blessed motherhood, bitter fruit Nelly Roussel and the politics of female pain in Third Republic France / [print] Elinor Accampo. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2006. - xii, 312 pages, 12. pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Conversion experiences -- Mother and missionary: the ideological foundations of an unorthodox feminism -- The making and marketing of a spectacular apostle -- The public and private politics of female self-sacrifice: audience reception -- Pathologies and persecutions -- The Great War: pacifism, censorship, and the disease of a "weary, wounded heart" -- Last battles: words of combat, hope, and pain.



9780801888960


Roussel, Nelly, 1878-1922.


Birth control--France--Biography.
Feminists--France--Biography.
Women social reformers--France--Biography.


Electronic Books.

HQ764.N469.B547 2006