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



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Titolo: Rebel daughters : women and the French Revolution / / edited by Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. Rabine Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 pages)
Disciplina: 944.04082
Soggetto topico: Women revolutionaries - France - History - 18th century
Women in public life - France - History - 18th century
Soggetto geografico: France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Women
France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution
Altri autori: MelzerSara E  
RabineLeslie W. <1944->  
Note generali: Papers from the conference on Women and the French Revolution that took place in Oct. 1989 at UCLA.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Rebel daughters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771571-0
1-280-52582-7
0-19-534498-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811423303321
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Serie: Publications of the University of California Humanities Research Institute.