Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France

A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honor system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behavior, they appropriated extralegal honor codes to enact new civic and familial identities.

Andrea Mansker is Associate Professor of History at Sewanee: The University of the South, USA. She recently contributed to the volume edited by Christopher E. Forth and Elinor Accampo, Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Sicle France: Bodies, Minds and[Gender (2010).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
'Mademoiselle Arria Ly Wants Blood!' The New Woman and the Debate over Female Honour
The Sexual Insult: Medicalized Views of Singleness during the Long Nineteenth Century
Rethinking Honour in the Republican Family: Fin-de-Siècle Divorce Suits
The Honour of a Name: Marital Status, Property, and the Patronymic
The Feminist Politics of the Female Surplus: Constructing Citizenship through Singleness
Sexual Citizenship and the Political Culture of Shame in the Women's Movement
Conclusion: Giving the Lie
Notes
Index