Women's Condition
Also known as: Women's Condition
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Show in diary 220 mentions Thematic Tag: Women's Condition
This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where Marie writes about what women may and may not do: "si j'étais homme", doors closed to women artists, the double standard, women's rights and feminist journalism (including her La Citoyenne articles under the pseudonym Pauline Orell). It replaces the feminism material formerly filed under Politics and the misfiled Feminism stub.
Tagging Criteria
- Tag a restriction or injustice felt as a woman ("si j'étais homme", barred from the Beaux-Arts, a woman alone in the street).
- Tag feminism and women's rights: Hubertine Auclert, La Citoyenne, the Pauline Orell project.
- Tag women's work, ambition and independence as a question.
- Tag the condition of women generally: marriage law as such goes to Marriage, but its effect on women's freedom is tagged here.
- Do not tag a woman merely described.
- Do not tag women artists' careers with no gendered obstacle in view (Her Art).
- Do not tag a man's political opinion about women (Politics) unless Marie discusses the condition of women.
- Do not tag "femme" meaning wife.
- The bar is that the paragraph is substantively about the theme; a passing word never qualifies. A paragraph takes at most three themes.
Common French Cues
- Phrases: "si j'étais homme", "nous autres femmes", "une femme ne peut pas", "les droits de la femme", "émancipation"
- Names: La Citoyenne, Hubertine Auclert, Pauline Orell, Académie Julian (the women's studio)
- False friends: femme = woman or wife; féminin used of a taste or a trait without a social point
Notable Patterns
- Her most developed passages (1880) are the plan to write for La Citoyenne under a pseudonym.
- The wish to go where men go (the street, the Louvre, the Beaux-Arts) recurs from the first carnets.