BLANCHARD Véronique, NIGET David.
Bad girls. Incorrigible rebels.
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| N° d'inventaire | 30271 |
| Format | 21 X 27 |
| Détails | 192 p., hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782845975606 |
If " bad boys " have their heroes, from Gavroche to Joey Starr and James Dean, " bad girls " are the invisible ones in history. In this book, Véronique Blanchard and David Niget reveal these fleeting shadows that appear in medical or legal archives: "vagabond," "hysterical," "single mother," "prostitute," "runaway," "gang leader," "punk," "scoundrel"...
Through some twenty embodied portraits of " bad girls " deemed immoral, from 1840 to the 2000s, they give a face and a story to these stormy destinies. They map the places they pass through or which imprison them - places of perdition (funfair, open-air dance hall, ball), of coercion (boarding school, convent, prison, asylum), of submission (brothel, family home). Suffocated and constrained for decades by the weight of legal, religious, medical, and family norms, these "incorrigible and rebellious" minors nevertheless ended up, through their resistance, becoming actors of social, cultural, and political change. So, deviant or dissident?
Through some twenty embodied portraits of " bad girls " deemed immoral, from 1840 to the 2000s, they give a face and a story to these stormy destinies. They map the places they pass through or which imprison them - places of perdition (funfair, open-air dance hall, ball), of coercion (boarding school, convent, prison, asylum), of submission (brothel, family home). Suffocated and constrained for decades by the weight of legal, religious, medical, and family norms, these "incorrigible and rebellious" minors nevertheless ended up, through their resistance, becoming actors of social, cultural, and political change. So, deviant or dissident?
Through some twenty embodied portraits of " bad girls " deemed immoral, from 1840 to the 2000s, they give a face and a story to these stormy destinies. They map the places they pass through or which imprison them - places of perdition (funfair, open-air dance hall, ball), of coercion (boarding school, convent, prison, asylum), of submission (brothel, family home). Suffocated and constrained for decades by the weight of legal, religious, medical, and family norms, these "incorrigible and rebellious" minors nevertheless ended up, through their resistance, becoming actors of social, cultural, and political change. So, deviant or dissident?