These women were scandals. Their frankness and their ability to artfully disclose that women could feel pleasure and describe it very well made men very jumpy, partly out of reverence for the dubious
The Hysteric's Revenge considers fin-de-siecle French women writers in the context of prevailing cultural anxieties about female intellect. During the years that overlap between the fin-de-siecle and
At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having it All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to t