Titre du document / Document title
The sex of science: Medicine, naturalism, and feminism in Lucie Delarue-Mardrus's Marie, fille-mère = Le sexe de la science : Médecine, naturalisme, et féminisme dans Marie, fille-mère de Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
MESCH Rachel L. (1) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Department of French, Barnard College, Columbia University, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598, ETATS-UNIS
Résumé / Abstract
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus published over forty novels during her lifetime, but her critical import has yet to be recognized. Delarue-Mardrus's first novel, Marie, fille-mère (1908), is both a rewriting of Zola's La Bête humaine and a feminist science of sex. The author's sentimentalized naturalist description of childbirth offers a moral and political critique of the patriarchal medical establishment and leads to an original theory of sexual desire that redefines the role of female sexual instincts. Further, Delarue-Mardrus's text acted as a kind of literary consciousness-raising for her largely female readership, thus signaling a new form of feminist politics at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Revue / Journal Title
Nineteenth-century French studies
ISSN
0146-7891
Source / Source
2003, vol. 31, n
o3-4, pp. 324-340 [17 page(s) (article)], [Note(s): 394 [18 p.]] (23 ref.)
Langue / Language
Anglais
Revue : Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, ETATS-UNIS
(1972)
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Localisation / Location
INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 23487, 35400011859213.0080
Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 14945397
