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Abstract / Summary

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.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Content Type

Periodical issue

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Format

Text

Page Count

4

Publication Year

1881

Publisher

La Citoyenne

Place Published / Released

Paris, Ile-de-France

Series Number

No. 18, June 12, 1881

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Politics, Women and Rights, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Turquía, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Francia, França, Turkey, Australia, Tahiti, Îles du Vent (Island), United States, England, France, 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)

Topic

Suffrage, Marital Status, Social and Cultural Rights, Equal Rights for Women

Series / Program

La Citoyenne

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Turquía, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Francia, França