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Being a heterodox woman among liberals: Clémence Royer, from political economy to anthropology

coécrit avec François Ettner

Clémence-Auguste Royer (1830-1902) was a singular figure in the second half of the 19th French century, since she was one of the few women economists to have made a name for herself among the economists of her time, as well as being a key figure in the emergence of Darwinism in France.

Self-educated, she began reading about biology, philosophy, anthropology and economics at the age of 19. She successively worked as a French and music teacher, an embroiderer, a philosophy lecturer, a novelist and a translator to support herself. She became a multidisciplinary scholar, complaining of a tendency towards intellectual specialisation, in art as in science: the division of labour is certainly effective in industry, while “the same genius increases its power and scope by cultivating similar arts or sciences” (Royer 1868, 184)2.

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