Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution
ISBN-10
0195344987
ISBN-13
9780195344981
Category
History
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
1992-05-21
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Sara E. Melzer, Leslie W. Rabine

Description

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 analyzes how the revolutionary process constructed a new gender system at the foundation of modern liberal culture.

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