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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819893603321

Autore

Eichner Carolyn Jeanne <1961->

Titolo

Surmounting the barricades : women in the Paris Commune / / Carolyn J. Eichner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

9786612071416

1-282-07141-6

0-253-11110-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

944.081/2

Soggetti

Women revolutionaries - France - Paris - History - 19th century

Paris (France) History Commune, 1871

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Actors and the Action; 2. Politics and Ideas: Staging the Struggle; 3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes 69 Revolutionizing Women's Labor; 4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender 97 The Battle over Women's Place; 5. Paule Mink and the Clubistes 129 Anti-Clericalism and Popular Revolution; 6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath 153 Radical Denouement; 7. Mink in the Aftermath 179 The Red Flag and the Future; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection.  Examining the period from the early 1860's through that century's end, Carolyn J. Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of