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Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

By Melzer , Leslie W , Sara E.;Rabine

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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN
0195068866, 019507016X, 9780195344981, 0195344987
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1896915 bytes)
Pages
309 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution;France1789-1799 -- Women;France -- History -- RevolutionWomen in public life--France--History--18th centur

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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 women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights that women helped to establish.;Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Representing the Body Politic: The Paradox of Gender in the Graphic Politics of the French Revolution; 3. "Love and Patriotism": Gender and Politics in the Life and Work of Louvet de Couvrai; 4. Incorruptible Milk: Breast-feeding and the French Revolution; 5. Women and Militant Citizenship in Revolutionary Paris; 6. "A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer": Olympe de Gouges Claims Rights for Women; 7. Outspoken Women and the Rightful Daughter of the Revolution: Madame de Staël's Considérations sur la Révolution Française.

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