| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Jean Elisabeth Pedersen. Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theatre, and Republican Politics, 1870–1920. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 271. $60.00.

This book brings to the subject of state regulation of the family in the Third Republic two methodological innovations. One innovation, which has implications well beyond the subject in question, is intersectional analysis, which the author, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, likely borrowed from women's studies scholarship but applies with impeccable attention to historiographical and historical context. Pedersen delineates connections among three apparently unconnected spheres: parliamentary politics concerning marriage, parenthood, and reproductive rights; women's organizations and feminist campaigns for divorce reform and paternity suits, and against the draconian birth control law of 1920; and social theater, defined as thesis plays dramatizing social injustices associated with the law. The second innovation, another extension of recent feminist scholarship, is relating these topics to conflicting and evolving definitions of citizenship, nationality, race, and colonialism.

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