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creators_name: Albrecht, Jessica A.
title: Gendered Citizenship, Suffrage and Reproduction in the Writings and Lives of Nineteenth Century French Feminists Jeanne Deroin and Jenny P. d’Héricourt
subjects: ddc-940
divisions: i-72050
abstract: This article analyses the writings and lives of Jeanne Deroin and Jenny P. d’Héricourt as examples of the notions of reproduction and motherhood, gendered citizenship and suffrage in nineteenth century feminism in France. Relating each to canonical male thinkers, historiography has failed to view Deroin and d’Héricourt together and to take them seriously as thinkers in their own right. Therefore, this article uses the concepts of gendered agency and reverse discourse to look at the relation between Deroin’s and d’Hércourt’s individual gendered experience and their feminist aims. Their example demonstrates that the discourse of suffrage and citizenship in nineteenth century France was inherently gendered; concomitantly gendered experience was linked to the discursive power relations. This reveals why it was possible and necessary for feminists to relate to the dominant discourse of sexual difference to articulate their feminist demands. It justified the need for women’s citizenship, suffrage and equal rights by positively reevaluating women’s qualities connected to motherhood and sentiment; and viewing reproduction as the fulfilment of a citizen’s duty to be rewarded with citizenship.
date: 2018
publisher: delta-Philosophie Heidelberg e.V.
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00033662
official_url: https://engenderacademia.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/gendered-citizenship-suffrage-and-reproduction-in-the-writings-and-lives-of-nineteenth-century-french-feminists-jeanne-deroin-and-jenny-p-d_hc3a9ricourt.pdf
ppn_swb: 1856805182
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-336624
language: eng
bibsort: ALBRECHTJEGENDEREDCI2018
full_text_status: public
publication: Engendering the Past
volume: 1
number: 1
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pagerange: 66-77
issn: 2700-1415
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Albrecht, Jessica A.  (2018) Gendered Citizenship, Suffrage and Reproduction in the Writings and Lives of Nineteenth Century French Feminists Jeanne Deroin and Jenny P. d’Héricourt.  Engendering the Past, 1 (1).  pp. 66-77.  ISSN 2700-1415     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33662/7/Albrecht_Gendered_Citizenship_2018.pdf