About the Author

Mary Louise Roberts is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"Disruptive Acts is a beautifully written and fascinating study of the emergence of the 'new woman' in fin-de-siecle France in context of the period's mass print culture, its preoccupation with the theater, its increasing commodification of culture, and the rise of the Third Republic. The book very importantly expands the history of how women resisted liberal domesticity in fin-de-siecle France and will be indispensable reading for a wide range of scholars." - Susan Lurie, author of Unsettled Subjects: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique