Feminist Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century: A Pariah Consciousness ?
Feminist Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century: A Pariah Consciousness ?

Summary/Abstract: “Traditional” history had not considered gender relations as a subject of study worthy of interest to researchers. Yet the status and the place of women in the nineteenth century were the subject of conflicts, the object of reflections, a constructed image before ending up as a separation of roles and sexes. Not that the nineteenth century is exceptional in this matter, but as in all fundamental historical periods in the course of which a new society is being formed, gender relations were redefined and the significance of the nineteenth century is to have reinforced considerably the division between public-private divisions: public space became the arena for masculine action, private space limited to the feminine garden. That is why the history of relations between men and women, an antagonistic relationship, is essential if we wish to understand one of the underpinnings of every society.

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