1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778479603321

Autore

Melzer Sara E

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1993

ISBN

0-19-771571-0

1-280-52582-7

0-19-534498-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

RabineLeslie W. <1944->

Disciplina

944.04082

Soggetti

Women in public life - France - History - 18th century

Women revolutionaries - France - History - 18th century

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

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 Woman; 9. 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



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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816743503321

Autore

Lawther R (Ross), <1960->

Titolo

Maximal abelian sets of roots / / R. Lawther

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4704-4208-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 1947-6221 ; ; Volume 250, Number 1192

Disciplina

512.482

Soggetti

Root systems (Algebra)

Lie algebras

Abelian groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Root systems of classical type -- The strategy for root systems of exceptional type -- The root system of type G b2 s -- The root system of type F b4 s -- The root system of type E b6 s -- The root system of type E b7 s -- The root system of type E b8 s -- Tables of maximal abelian sets -- Appendix A: Root trees for root systems of exceptional type -- Bibliography.