LEADER 04567nam 22007334a 450 001 9910456421403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35849-9 010 $a9786612358494 010 $a0-520-93976-X 010 $a1-59734-612-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939769 035 $a(CKB)111090529079612 035 $a(EBL)223368 035 $a(OCoLC)475927800 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153351 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11152420 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153351 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10404844 035 $a(PQKB)10420685 035 $a(OCoLC)55748311 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30790 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223368 035 $a(DE-B1597)519524 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223368 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058517 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235849 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529079612 100 $a20030623d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe family on trial in revolutionary France$b[electronic resource] /$fSuzanne Desan 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (475 p.) 225 1 $aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v51 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24816-3 311 $a0-520-23859-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-425) and index. 327 $aFreedom of the heart -- The political power of love -- Broken bonds -- "War between brothers and sisters" -- Natural children, abandoned mothers, and emancipated fathers -- What makes a father? -- Reconstituting the social after the terror -- Toward the civil code. 330 $aIn a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France-sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges-all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships. 410 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v51. 606 $aFamilies$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFamilies$xPolitical aspects$zFrance 606 $aDomestic relations$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799$xWomen 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory 615 0$aFamilies$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aDomestic relations$xHistory 676 $a306.85/0944/09033 700 $aDesan$b Suzanne$f1957-$01014807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456421403321 996 $aThe family on trial in revolutionary France$92366601 997 $aUNINA