Rebel daughters : women and the French Revolution / edited by Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. Rabine.

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TextSeries: Publications of the University of California Humanities Research InstitutePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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1429406933
9781429406932
9780195068863
0195068866
1280525827
9781280525827
9786610525829
661052582X
9780195344981
0195344987
0190281804
9780190281809

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DC158.8 .R44 1992eb

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Contents:

Representing the body politic : the paradox of gender in the graphic politics of the French Revolution / Joan B. Landes -- "Love and patriotism" : gender and politics in the life and work of Louvet de Couvrai / Kathryn Norberg -- Incorruptible milk : breast-feeding and the French Revolution / Mary L. Jacobus -- Women and militant citizenship in Revolutionary Paris / Darline Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewhite -- "A woman who has only paradoxes to offer" : Olympe de Gouges claims rights for women / Joan Wallach Scott -- Outspoken women and the rightful daughter of the Revolution : Madame de Staël's Considerations sur la Révolution Française / Linda Orr -- Triste Amérique : Atala and the postrevolutionary construction of woman / Naomi Schor -- Being René, buying Atala : alienated subjects and decorative objects in postrevolutionary France / Margaret Waller.

Exotic femininity and the rights of man : Paul et Virginie and Atala, or the revolution in stasis / Marie-Claire Vallois -- The engulfed beloved : representations of dead and dying women in the art and literature of the revolutionary era / Madelyn Gutwirth -- "Equality" and "difference" in historical perspective : a comparative examination of the feminisms of French Revolutionaries and utopian socialists / Claire Goldberg Moses -- English women writers and the French Revolution / Anne K. Mellor -- Flora Tristan : rebel daughter of the Revolution / Dominique Desanti.

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Summary: 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.

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Papers from the conference on Women and the French Revolution that took place in Oct. 1989 at UCLA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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