Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920

Karen Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the debates around relations between women and men, how they are constructed, and how they should be organized, that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors from 1870 to 1920. The ''woman question'' encompassed subjects from maternity and childbirth, and the upbringing and education of girls to marriage practices and propert...