Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France /
Elinor Accampo.
- 1 online resource (xii, 312 p., [12] p. of plates) : ill., maps, ports. ;
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.
Conversion experiences -- Mother and missionary: the ideological foundations of an unorthodox feminism -- The making and marketing of a spectacular apostle -- The public and private politics of female self-sacrifice: audience reception -- Pathologies and persecutions -- The Great War: pacifism, censorship, and the disease of a "weary, wounded heart" -- Last battles: words of combat, hope, and pain.
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Roussel, Nelly, 1878-1922.
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