Rebel Daughters
Women and the French Revolution
Leslie W Rabine editor Sara E Melzer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:21st Oct '93
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they helped to establish. At the same time that women were banned from the political sphere, `woman' was transformed into an allegorical figure which became the very symbol of (masculine) Liberty and Equality. This volume analyses how the revolutionary process constructed a new gender system at the foundation of modern liberal culture.
'This collection of essays offers a substantial and original contribution to the growing body of work about women in the revolutionary era... The authors' methods, subject matter, and concerns are far-ranging, so this timely collection will engage literary scholars, historians, art historians, some political theorists, and of course, scholars of women's studies.' Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin
'it is clearly and usefully referenced and, given the variety of subjects broached, will be of interest to those seeking a starting point for their study of the gender issues relating to this turbulent period' M.-C. Hardie, Nottingham Trent Unievrsity, Journal of Gender Studies, 1994
'an interesting collection of articles by scholars in this expanding field ... it is clearly and usefully referenced and, given the variety of subjects broached, will be of interest to those seekng a starting point for their study of the gender issues relating to this turbulent period.' M.-C. Hardie, The Nottingham Trent University, Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1994
ISBN: 9780195070163
Dimensions: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
Weight: 481g
312 pages