{"product_id":"the-new-biography-jo-burr-margadant-9780520221413","title":"The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France Volume 38","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe New Biography\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. All of these women--activists, writers, and philosophers--became controversial figures who challenged conventional notions of femininity in their time. By showing how these women deliberately created their public lives, Jo Burr Margadant and her colleagues demonstrate the rich rewards of the new methods in biography. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her introduction Margadant gives a brilliant explanation of the new biography and how it fits into recent and current debates about the writing of history. Each essay that follows connects the lives of the women it discusses with major themes in French history. The famous activist Flora Tristan, the feminist journalist Marguerite Durand, and a leading advocate of birth control, Nelly Roussell, are just a few of the fascinating women brought to life in this book. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause these stories often expose the cracks in what has been seen as a monolithic separation of gendered spheres in nineteenth-century bourgeois France, they challenge historians to rethink assumptions about the history of this period. \u003ci\u003eThe New Biography\u003c\/i\u003e thus joins a body of work that brings women from the margins of the historical record into history's mainstream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jo Burr Margadant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520221419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520221413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.03w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 1155","brand":"Jo Burr Margadant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520280019199,"sku":"9780520221413","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_def9a22d-88c3-416f-8cd5-b58bb8b89b0f.jpg?v=1762884623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-biography-jo-burr-margadant-9780520221413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}