Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Fragonard's Erotic Mothers and the Politics of Reproduction
Chapter 2. The Political Economy of the Body in the Liaisons dangereuses of Choderlos de Laclos
Chapter 3. The Diamond Nacklace Affair Revisited (1785-1786): The Case of the Missing Queen
Chapter 4. Political Exposures: Sexuality and Caricature in the French Revolution
Chapter 5. The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution
Chapter 6. The Social Body: Disorder and Ritual in Sade's Story of Juliette
Chapter 7. The "New Woman," Feminism, and the Decorative Arts in Fin de Siècle France
Chapter 8. Splitting Hairs: Female Fetishism and Postpartum Sentimentality in the Fin de Siècle
Chapter 9. Rodin's Reputation
Contributors

About the Author

Lynn Hunt is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution and editor of The New Cultural History.

Reviews

An excellent, informative, intriguing collection of essays. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Its real accomplishment-and it is a significant one-is in mapping out an essentially new field of inquiry and inspiring other scholars to investigate that territory. Women's Review of Books The interpretations here are sharp and provocative, and their implications go far beyond the specific historical moment they address. Virginia Quarterly Review