Download or read book Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France written by A. Mansker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities.