La Citoyenne, No. 164, novembre 1890

La Citoyenne, No. 164, novembre 1890

edited by Maria Martin, 1839-1910, in La Citoyenne, No. 164, November, 1890 (Paris, Ile-de-France: La Citoyenne, 1890), 4 page(s)

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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. This issue includes the article, “La Citoyenne en Afrique” (“The Citizen in Africa”), by Hubertine Auclert. She reported on an exchange she had with the director and general councilor of the major French-language Algerian newspaper, Vigie Algérienne. The director expressed surprise that a married woman would express the ideas Auclert published in the La Citoyenne. Auclert challenged his contentions that women belonged in the private sphere and that maternity disqualified women from holding and exercising civic rights. In “La question génante” (“The Annoying Question”), Camille (pseudonym of Léon Giraud) argued for the vital importance of introducing a law that allowed women to sue for paternity, something that was forbidden by the Napoleonic Code. The piece, “Les femmes médecins dans les Indes” (“Women Doctors in India”), was reprinted from the English newspaper, Women’s Penny Paper. It underscored the importance of women doctors in India and in Arab cultures, where women were barred from seeing male doctors.
Field of Interest
Women and Social Movements
Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Content Type
Periodical issue
Duration
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Format
Text
Page Count
4
Publication Year
1890
Publisher
La Citoyenne
Place Published / Released
Paris, Ile-de-France
Series Number
No. 164, November, 1890
Subject
Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Work, Women and the Law, Women and Rights, Women and Politics, Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Leyes, Mulher e Legislação, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Argelia, Argélia, Francia, França, India, Algeria, France, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Political and Human Rights, Women as Medical Professionals, Family Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights, French, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Topic
Women as Medical Professionals, Family Rights, Equal Rights for Women, Social and Cultural Rights
Series / Program
La Citoyenne
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Mujer y Trabajo, Mulher e Trabalho, Mujer y Leyes, Mulher e Legislação, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Mujer y Política, Mulher e Política, Argelia, Argélia, Francia, França

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