Monsters, New Women and Lady Professors: A Centenary Look Back at Gabrielle Reval

In the early 1900s Gabrielle R val wrote several semi-autobiographical best-sellers about the first graduates of the Ecole normale secondaire de jeunes filles. Participating in a major shift in educational institutions and middle-class images of femininity, these pioneering women professors struggle...

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Published in:Nineteenth-century French studies 2002-03, Vol.30 (3), p.347-362
Main Author: Van Slyke, Gretchen Jane
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:In the early 1900s Gabrielle R val wrote several semi-autobiographical best-sellers about the first graduates of the Ecole normale secondaire de jeunes filles. Participating in a major shift in educational institutions and middle-class images of femininity, these pioneering women professors struggled for accep-tance in a society that feared and abhorred them. They also contended with the Third Republic's desires to contain many unintended consequences resulting from this educational innovation. R val's inside views of the private and professional lives of these "new women" throw a stark light on the paradoxes and contradictions upon which the Third Republic's experiment in women's education was founded. (GvS)
ISSN:0146-7891
1536-0172
1536-0172
DOI:10.1353/ncf.2002.0036