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Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (Publications of the University of California Humanities Research Institute)

By Sara E. Melzer , Leslie W. Rabine

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
019507016X, 9780195070163, 9781429406932
LCC
DC158.8 .R44 1992
Open Library ID
OL1888258M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21091450 bytes)
Pages
312\309
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 analyzes how the revolutionary process constructed a new gender system at the foundation of modern liberal culture.

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