Rebel Daughters [[electronic resource] ] : Women and the French Revolution

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454899403321
• Autore: Melzer Sara E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• ISBN: 1-280-52582-7; 0-19-534498-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RabineLeslie W
• Disciplina: 944.04082
• Soggetti: France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799 - Women; Women in public life; Women revolutionaries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 8. Triste Amérique: Atala and the Postrevolutionary Construction of Woman9. Being René, Buying Atala: Alienated Subjects and Decorative Objects in Postrevolutionary France; 10. Exotic Femininity and the Rights of Man: Paul et Virginie and Atala, or the Revolution in Stasis; 11. The Engulfed Beloved: Representations of Dead and Dying Women in the Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Era; 12. ""Equality"" and ""Difference"" in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination of the Feminisms of French Revolutionaries and Utopian Socialists; 13. English Women Writers and the French Revolution14. Flora Tristan: Rebel Daughter of the Revolution; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; ; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.