Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 296 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
019507016X
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0195068866
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9780195070163
Series Statement:
Publications of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
Content:
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 women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights that women helped to establish
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers from the conference on Women and the French Revolution that took place in Oct. 1989 at UCLA
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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
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8. Triste Amérique: Atala and the Postrevolutionary Construction of Woman9. 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
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13. English Women Writers and the French Revolution14. Flora Tristan: Rebel Daughter of the Revolution; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195068863
Additional Edition:
Print version Rebel Daughters : Women and the French Revolution
Language:
English
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