03601nam 2200601Ia 450 991081142330332120200520144314.00-19-771571-01-280-52582-70-19-534498-710.1093/oso/9780195068863.001.0001(CKB)1000000000793926(EBL)272556(OCoLC)466427396(MiAaPQ)EBC272556(OCoLC)1406785362(StDuBDS)9780197715710(OCoLC)22593395(FINmELB)ELB166318(EXLCZ)99100000000079392619950301d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRebel daughters women and the French Revolution /edited by Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. RabineNew York Oxford University Press19921 online resource (309 pages)Publications of the University of California Humanities Research InstitutePapers from the conference on Women and the French Revolution that took place in Oct. 1989 at UCLA.0-19-506886-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Française8. 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; IndexThis 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.Publications of the University of California Humanities Research Institute.Women revolutionariesFranceHistory18th centuryWomen in public lifeFranceHistory18th centuryFranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799WomenFranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799Literature and the revolutionWomen revolutionariesHistoryWomen in public lifeHistory944.04082Melzer Sara E1679975Rabine Leslie W.1944-1152220MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811423303321Rebel daughters4200232UNINA