Anna Lampérière, solidarité et citoyenneté féminine sous la Troisième République
Abstract
Anna Lampérière, solidarité and female citizenship in the Third Republic This article explores the ideas of educator Anna Lampérière, one of the rare women to contribute significantly to the theoretical discussion about the ideology of solidarity during the Third Republic. Viewed in tandem with her own personal history and civic activism, Lampérière’s thought provides unique insight into a possible solidarist model of female citizenship without voting rights. Operating within the flourishing associational culture of the early twentieth century Anna Lampérière helped initiate and run important gender-inclusive civic education projects as a way of putting into practice Léon Bourgeois’s solidarist ideology. A self-identified antifeminist, she nonetheless saw herself as an advocate for women and promoter of social progress and, like many contemporaries, placed education reform at the center of her republican project. Following a discussion of Anna Lampérière’s social vision, the article the examines the gender-inclusive civic practices and structure of the Société pour l’éducation sociale, an association for the promotion of solidarism of which she served as Secretary General. Solidarist ideology and practice held appeal for republican women like A. Lampérière who felt a civic vocation but were put off by egalitarian models of citizenship.
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