Jo Burr Margadant, ed The New Biogr...

Jo Burr Margadant, ed The New Biography. Performing Femininity in Nineteenth hundred France. Berkeley: U of California P 2000 308 pp ISBN 0-520-22140-0 $4800 cloth; ISBN 0-520-27141-9 $1795 paper.

The of the present day Biography examines the lives of eight French women who achieved celebrity status in the nineteenth centenary a time when it was widely believed that women belonged in the private domestic sphere; however, each of these women became a part of the public sphere.

These biographical articles are "new" because they suggest a postmodem methodological approach to