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.
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