Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr
PART I: FEMINISM AND FEMINISTS
Chapter 1. New Republic, New Women? Feminism and Modernity at the Belle Epoque
Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr
Chapter 2. 1890-1914: A 'Belle Epoque' for Feminism?
Máire Cross
Chapter 3. Marguerite Durand and La Fronde: Voicing Women of the Belle Epoque
Maggie Allison
Chapter 4. The Uncompromising Doctor Madeleine Pelletier: Feminist and Political Activist
Anna Norris
Chapter 5. Clans and Chronologies: The Salon of Natalie Barney
Melanie Hawthorne
PART II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW WOMEN?
Chapter 6. Vélo-Métro-Auto: Women's Mobility in Belle Epoque Paris
Siân Reynolds
Chapter 7. Popularising New Women in Belle Epoque Advertising Posters
Ruth E. Iskin
Chapter 8. An American in Paris: Loïe Fuller, Dance and Technology
Naoko Morita
Chapter 9. Becoming Women: Cinema, Gender and Technology
Elizabeth Ezra
PART III: WOMEN AND SPECTACLE
Chapter 10. Spectacles of Themselves: Women Writing for the Stage in Belle Epoque France
Kimberly van Noort
Chapter 11. Being a Dancer in 1900: Sign of Alienation or Quest for Autonomy?
Hélène Laplace-Claverie
Chapter 12. Visions of Reciprocity in the Work of Camille Claudel
Angela Ryan
PART IV: WOMEN, WRITING AND RECEPTION
Chapter 13. Feminist Discourse in Women's Novels of Professional Development
Juliette M. Rogers
Chapter 14. Daniel Lesueur and the Feminist Romance
Diana Holmes
Chapter 15. Virginal Perversion/Radical Subversion: Rachilde and Discourses of Legitimation
Jeri English
Chapter 16. Decadence and the Woman Writer: Renée Vivien's Une femme m'apparut Tama
Lea Engelking
Chapter 17. Sensual Deviations and Verbal Abuse: Anna de Noailles in the Critic's Eye
Catherine Perry
Chapter 18. Proletarian Women, Proletarian Writing: The Case of Marguerite Audoux
Angela Kershaw
PART V: COLONISED AND OTHER WOMEN
Chapter 19. Coloniser and Colonised in Hubertine Auclert's Writings on Algeria
Edith Taïeb
Chapter 20. The Chivalrous Coloniser: Colonial Feminism and the roman à thèse in the Belle Epoque
Jennifer Yee
Chapter 21. Marcelle Tinayre's Notes d'une voyageuse en Turquie: Creating Solidarity among Women
Margot Irvine
Conclusion
Select Chronology 1870-1914
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
