Daughters of Eve c - Berlanstein, Lenard R.; American Council of Learned Societies (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001)
Setting the scene -- Theater women and aristocratic libertinism, 171 5-1789 -- Defining the modern gender order, 1760-1815 -- Magdalenes of postaristocratic France, 1815-1848 -- The erotic culture of the stage - - The struggle against pornocracy, 1848-1880 -- Imagining republican ac tresses, 1880-1914 -- Performing a self -- From notorious women to inti mate strangers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-293) and index.
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Keywords: Women in the theater -- France -- History -- 19th century; Women in the theater -- France -- History -- 18th century; Actresses -- France -- Biography