Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780195070163 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 312 str.

Sara E. Melzer; Leslie W. Rabine; Leslie W. Rabine

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'an interesting collection of articles by scholars in this expanding field ... it is clearly and usefully referenced and, given the variety of subjects broached, will be of interest to those seekng a starting point for their study of the gender issues relating to this turbulent period.' M.-C. Hardie, The Nottingham Trent University, Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1994