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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811423303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-771571-0; 1-280-52582-7; 0-19-534498-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 pages)
• Collana: Publications of the University of California Humanities Research Institute; Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 944.04082
• Soggetti: France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Women; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers from the conference on Women and the French Revolution that took place in Oct. 1989 at UCLA.; Previously issued in print: 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and 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 study analyzes the ironic nature of the social treatment of women during the French Revolution. While the allegorical figure of womanhood came to symbolize the virtues of the new French Republic, the book describes how women in France were continually repressed and down-trodden.