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La Citoyenne, No. 1, 13 fevrier 1881
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 1, February 13, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women's suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France's fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped h...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 1, February 13, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women's suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France's fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women's suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France's fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. This first issue of the newspaper opens with an essay by Hubertine Auclert titled, "La Citoyenne," (The Woman Citizen), explaining the publication’s goal of attaining civil and political equality for women and men. Other articles address "Les femmes électeurs," (Women Voters), about women who attempt to vote, despite it being against the law; "Le divorce en Italie," (Divorce in Italy); "Les femmes d’Irlande," (Irish Women), lauding the Women’s Agrarian League’s revolutionary activism against landlords; and "Les femmes au Niger," (Women of Niger), written by the anonymous "A traveler to Niger," which describes how the indigenous women of this French colony travel alone by river, even when nursing a baby.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
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Women and Social Movements
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Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
13 February 1881, 1881
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Suffrage, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, Nigeriens (Niger), Italians, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 18, 12 juin 1881
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 18, June 12, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 18, June 12, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, Hubertine Auclert wrote the article, “Reponse d’un député” (A Deputy’s Response”), about the state of the women’s suffrage struggle in France, England and the United States. A short piece titled “Tahiti,” in the “Exterieur” column, reported celebrations as Tahiti officially became a French colony. “La terreur du mari” (“The Terror of the Husband”) strongly critiqued women’s lack of rights and recourse under the Napoleonic Code’s marital laws. The brief article, “La fête de la mort en Australie” (“The Celebration of Death in Australia”), by the writer Léo Quesnel, explained the silent dance that women performs when a person dies. “Les Eunuques Blancs” (“The White Eunuchs”), penned by Draigu, the pseudonym of Léon Girard, a writer and one of Auclert’s supporters and financial backers, compared legal and customary means of controlling women in Turkey and in France. Draigu often wrote about women beyond the metropole, using the pseudonyms Draigu or Camille. He stated that he prefers the honesty of polygamy to the hypocrisy of France’s monogamy.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
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Women and Social Movements
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Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
12 June 1881, 1881
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Suffrage, Marital Status, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Australians, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 32, 25 septembre 1881
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 32, September 25, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 32, September 25, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, citing several articles of the civil code that subjected women to their husband’s will, Auclert compares married women to slaves. She asserts that if young women taking marital vows understood what a “trap” they were entering, they would not move into a “conjugal prison.” Another article discusses an insurrection in Algeria that was spreading across North Africa. Abstract created by Marilyn J. Boxer.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
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Women and Social Movements
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Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
25 September 1881, 1881
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Family Rights, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 37, 24-30 octobre 1881
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 37, October 24-30, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 37, October 24-30, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, “Le Code Civil” (“The Civil Code”) critiqued the inequitable treatment of women under the marriage laws of the Napoleonic Code. It was written by Draigu, the pseudonym of Léon Girard, a writer and one of Auclert’s supporters and financial backers. He often wrote about women beyond the metropole, using the pseudonyms Draigu or Camille. In “Les femmes d’un Prophète” (“The Wives of a Prophet”), Antonin Lévrier (Auclert’s romantic partner and future husband, and a regular contributor to La Citoyenne) wrote of Mohammed’s (“Mahomet”) life, death, and wives, and about the cities of Mecca (“La Mecque”) and Medina (“Médine”). “Les grands dangers qui menacent la société: L’émancipation des femmes,” (“The Great Dangers Menacing Society: Women’s Emancipation”) satirized men’s fears of women’s emancipation.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
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Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
24 October 1881, 1881
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Political and Human Rights, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Male Religious Authorities, Social and Cultural Rights, Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 40, 14-20 novembre 1881
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 40, November 14-20, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 40, November 14-20, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, Hubertine Auclert, in “Les Maris Assassins” (“Murderous Husbands”), criticized France’s judicial leniency toward men convicted of murdering their wives, and called for the death penalty as their punishment. “Ce qu’on pense en Amèrique” (“What Americans Think”), included the reprint of “Courte réponse aux objections usitée contre le suffrage des femmes” (“A Short Response to arguments against women’s suffrage”) from the Women’s Journal of Boston. “La femme Musulmane” (“The Muslim Woman”) discussed Muslim women’s subservient position.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
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Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
14 November 1881, 1881
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Religious Prescriptions for Women, Marital Status, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Americans, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 43, 5-11 décembre 1881
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 43, December 5-11, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 43, December 5-11, 1881 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1881), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, Auclert attacks the marital laws on disposition of property that deprive married women of any measure of control over it. Praising the revolutionaries of 1789 for having established equal rights over and requiring mutual consent in administering property, which was revoked by the Napoleonic Code, she complains that this reduces married women to complete and humiliating economic dependence on their husbands. Another article on the civil code compares the legal treatment of married women in France and Britain. Abstract created by Marilyn J. Boxer.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
05 December 1881, 1881
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Political and Human Rights, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Social and Cultural Rights, Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, British, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 59, avril 1882
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 59, April, 1882 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1882), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 59, April, 1882 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1882), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, Auclert expresses concern that the project of law on reconstituting divorce, though deemed very unlikely to pass, would continue the double standard of adultery. Other articles refer to Auclert’s petition to include women in a proposed congress to revise the constitution, and a recent discussion in the municipal council of Paris about establishing secondary schools for girls. Abstract created by Marilyn J. Boxer.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
April 1882, 1882
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Women and Education, Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Access to Higher Education, Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 79, 3 décembre 1883 - 6 janvier 1884
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 79, December 3, 1883-January 6, 1884 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1883), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 79, December 3, 1883-January 6, 1884 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1883), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. In this issue, Auclert takes on the resistance by typographers to the entrance of women into their profession. While accepting foreign men who work for less than union wages, they refuse women, including spinsters, widows and poor wives who must work for their living. Other articles deal with the benefits of international alliances through marriage and courses on anthropological perspectives comparing men and women. Abstract created by Marilyn J. Boxer.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
1883
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Work and Class Identity, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Rights to Work, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 82, mars 1884
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 82, March, 1884 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1884), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 82, March, 1884 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1884), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. This issue includes the second of the four-part series, “La femme arabe” (“The Arab Woman”), which compared the lives of Algerian Muslim women to those of French women. This article argued that although Arab women’s lives were more physically constrained than French women, the Arab women had both greater legal rights and access to legal recourse than did women under France’s Napoleonic Code of Law. Another article includes the opening piece, “Le vote ou l’exonération de l’impot” (“The Vote or the Exemption from Taxation”), by Hubertine Auclert. It published a petition to the legislature, arguing that unless women had the right to vote, they should not have to pay taxes. The piece, “Divorce Comique” (“Divorce Comic”), criticized a Senate report involved in the ongoing debate regarding the re-establishment of legal divorce in France. In “La Reine de Madagascar” (“The Queen of Madagascar”), the pseudonymous author “Une Voyageuse” (“A Women Traveler”) explained how the newly-crowned Queen of Madagascar valorized education over militarism, countering European assumptions of her barbarism.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
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Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
March 1884, 1884
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, Arabs, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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La Citoyenne, No. 83, avril 1884
edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 83, April, 1884 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1884), 4 page(s)
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped...
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edited by Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914, in La Citoyenne, No. 83, April, 1884 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1884), 4 page(s)
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La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to addres...
La Citoyenne was a French feminist newspaper, founded, funded, and edited by Hubertine Auclert, with the primary aim of promoting women’s suffrage. Auclert, the leader of France’s fledgling suffrage movement from 1880 to her death in 1914, lived in Algeria from 1888-1892. This experience intensified and shaped her already existing interest in the colony. La Citoyenne, published from 1881-1891, was the first French feminist newspaper to address questions of empire. This issue includes the third in the four-part series, “La femme arabe” (“The Arab Woman”), which compared the lives of Algerian Muslim women to those of French women. This installment criticized marriage laws and practices in both Algeria and France, accusing France of hypocritically claiming to be more civilized than Algeria in these areas. In the article “Pour être belle” (“To Be Beautiful”), Hubertine Auclert countered a male journalist’s statement that the vote would make women ugly, by arguing that it would instead make them beautiful because it would emancipate them. The short announcement, “Les faux humanitaires” (“The False Humanitarians”), explained that the French Consul in Tangiers had taken steps to end slavery. The piece questioned why there was such concern for the slavery of Moroccan men and so little for French women’s slavery.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914
Date Published / Released
April 1884, 1884
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Series
La Citoyenne
Topic / Theme
Peace, International Governance, and International Law, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Marital Status, Abolition of Slavery, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, Arabs, French, Moroccans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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