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Linda L. Clark, The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). This splendid book, with its overarching vision, its mastery [...]

The book is arranged so that the modern edition faces the requisite pages of the earlier critical edition, so for specialists (as well as intrigued non-specialist readers) it is easy to evaluate and compare both texts. The annotated critical edition itself is based on the careful study of four extant manuscripts (Rouen, Chantilly, Leningrad [once again St. Petersberg], and Phillipps), plus three printed editions (two from the late fifteenth century and the 1734 edition Le Duchat). And yet, in conclusion, and despite his depiction of the ostensible "joys" of marriage, the author acknowledges that men cannot get along without women. [Extracted from the article]

Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940, by Timothy B. Smith. Montreal, Quebec and Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. viii, 241 pp. $75.00 US (cloth). This forcefully argued, though [...]

This book couples a meticulous and deftly executed quantitative historical study of data about French 'peasants,' broadly defined as country dwellers, with an excursion into the new cultural criticism that [...]

The contribution of Ghenia Avril de Sainte-Croix (1855-1939), a feminist who worked for the campaigns against regulated prostitution, started by Josephine Butler is discussed.