Napoleon and the woman question : discourses of the other sex in French education, medicine, and medical law, 1799-1815
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Napoleon and the woman question : discourses of the other sex in French education, medicine, and medical law, 1799-1815
(Fashioning the eighteenth century)
Texas Tech University Press, c2007
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-277) and index
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'The Emperor did not consider women the weaker sex. In fact, they were strong, perhaps too strong. With their tears or their allure, they could control a man...They were autonomous beings who could move around the system, interject themselves into it at the right moment, and further the cause of women without being unduly noticed. For womans nature, what mattered was la difference' - Susan P. Conner, from the Foreword. Women under the Napoleonic regime have been largely neglected by historians. Through recovered discourses and other primary sources, in ""Napoleon and the Woman Question"" June K. Burton uncovers the strategies that Napoleonic women employed to control their lives. She begins with an analysis of Napoleons personal attitudes about the nature of women. He did not view them as weak vessels, but rather as industrious and strong, with an important role: as wives and mothers. She discusses Frances first national system of midwifery education, womens issues in Napoleonic textbooks, the infanticide controversy, and the prevailing view of the relationship between the physical and the moral in feminine bodies and minds. In addition, she explores womens medicine and surgery of the time with narratives from two patients, Adrienne Noailles Lafayette and Francis Burney dArblay. By clarifying the tensions and ambiguities of the Napoleonic period, Burton provides a nuanced approach to late-eighteenth-century and Napoleonic studies. June K. Burton is associate professor emerita of history at the University of Akron and an associate editor of Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 17991815. Napoleon and Clio (1979) established her reputation as an expert on Napoleonic historiography and bibliography.
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