The family on trial in revolutionary France / / Suzanne Desan

• Autore: Desan Suzanne <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (475 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85/0944/09033
• Soggetto topico: Families - France - History - 18th century; Families - Political aspects - France; Domestic relations - France - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Women; France History Revolution, 1789-1799
• Soggetto non controllato: case studies; civil rights; cultural history; domestic sphere; europe; family and culture; family dynamics; family politics; family relationships; french culture; french history; french revolution; french society; gender and politics; gender politics; historians; law and culture; legal customs; new france; nonfiction; normandy; political history; revolutionary france; revolutionary ideals; social practices; social revolution; sociology; traditional family
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-425) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Freedom 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Family on trial in revolutionary France
• ISBN: 1-282-35849-9; 9786612358494; 0-520-93976-X; 1-59734-612-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815556003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 51.