Rebel Daughters Women and the French Revolution

Name: Rebel Daughters Women and the French Revolution
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ISBN: 9780195070163

ISBN-10: 019507016X

ISBN-13: 9780195070163

Edition: 1992

Authors: Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. Rabine

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they helped to establish. At the same time that women were banned from the political sphere, `woman' was transformed into an allegorical figure which became the very symbol of (masculine) Liberty and Equality. This volume analyses how the revolutionary process constructed a new gender system at the foundation of modern liberal culture.

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/21/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Contributors



Introduction



Representing the Body Politic: the Paradox of Gender in the Graphic Politics of the French Revolution



"Love and Patriotism": Gender and Politics in the Life and Work of Louvet De Couvrai



Incorruptible Milk: Breast-Feeding and the French Revolution



Women and Militant Citizenship in Revolutionary Paris



"A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer": Olympe De Gouges Claims Rights for Women



Outspoken Women and the Rightful Daughter of the Revolution: Madame De Staï¿½l's Considerations Sur La Rï¿½volution Franï¿½aise



Triste Amï¿½rique: Atala and the Postrevolutionary Construction of Woman



Being Renï¿½, Buying Atala: Alienated Subjects and Decorative Objects in Postrevolutionary France



Exotic Femininity and the Rights of Man: Paul Et Virginie and Atala, or the Revolution in Stasis



The Engulfed Beloved: Representations of Dead and Dying Women in the Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Era



"Equality" and "Difference" in Historical Perspective: a Comparative Examination of the Feminisms of French Revolutionaries and Utopian Socialists



English Women Writers and the French Revolution



Flora Tristan: Rebel Daughter of the Revolution


Index