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Women, Equality, and the French Revolution

Author : Candice E. Proctor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313368554
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Equality, and the French Revolution by : Candice E. Proctor

Download or read book Women, Equality, and the French Revolution written by Candice E. Proctor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-10-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives of Paris, the book examines the impact of the Revolution's ideology of liberty and equality. When the men of 1789 wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were thinking in terms of man the male, not man the species. But there were some men and women who interpreted it in terms of all humanity. The outrage of these individuals over what they perceived as a discrepancy between the principles and the practice of the Revolution motivated them to produce some of the most unhesitating declarations of sexual equality that had ever been seen in history. Dr. Proctor demonstrates, however, these claims of equality were not simply ignored; they were categorically rejected by the mainstream revolutionaries. The book examines the typical 18th-century concept of women as alien and in some ways inferior beings and traces the striking continuity between pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary thought on the subject. Against this background, Proctor addresses a number of important questions: How widespread was the support for a movement in favor of sexual equality? What was the response of the Revolution itself to demands for equal rights for women? How did the men of the French Revolution justify the contradiction between their suppression of women and the ideologies for which they claimed to be fighting? To arrive at the answers, an abundance of material produced in France in the 18th century is identified and analyzed, and cited in an extensive bibliography of original sources. What finally emerges is not only a clearer picture of the French Revolution and its attitude toward women, but a deeper understanding of the ambivalent attitudes toward women that still affect our society today. This book will be an important resource for courses in European history, the French Revolution, and women's studies, as well as a valuable reference for college, university, and public libraries.

Women's Rights and the French Revolution

Author : Sophie Mousset
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135147118X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Women's Rights and the French Revolution written by Sophie Mousset and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women played a major part in the French Revolution of 1789, but have received very little recognition for their contributions. The many claims and protests put forth by women at that time were suppressed, women's clubs were banned, and Olympe de Gouges, a leading contemporary advocate for women's rights, was silenced and has since remained an obscure figure. This book is the first biography of this astonishing woman.After boldly publishing her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791, de Gouges was sent to the guillotine for having had the courage to mount the rostrum on behalf of women. Unlike many who have captured posterity's attention, de Gouges had great sympathy but no indulgence for her sex. Instead of considering her female colleagues as eternal victims, she understood that they were to some extent responsible for their misfortunes, and that if they united and devoted themselves to changing their image, they could become great. De Gouges called for the advent of a new woman, one who would relinquish the nocturnal administering of men.Olympe de Gouges rightly deserves the title of pioneer, prophet, and heroine. This long-overdue biography pays her due homage. It will be of interest to students of the French Revolution, women's studies, and biography.

Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution

Author : Joan B. Landes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801494819
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution written by Joan B. Landes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women under the Old Regime with their status during and after the Revolution. Basing her work on a wide reading of current historical scholarship, Landes draws on the work of Habermas and his followers, as well as on recent theories of representation, to re-create public-sphere theory from a feminist point of view.Within the extremely personal and patriarchal political culture of Old Regime France, elite women wielded surprising influence and power, both in the court and in salons. Urban women of the artisanal class often worked side by side with men and participated in many public functions. But the Revolution, Landes asserts, relegated women to the home, and created a rigidly gendered, essentially male, bourgeois public sphere. The formal adoption of "universal" rights actually silenced public women by emphasizing bourgeois conceptions of domestic virtue.In the first part of this book, Landes links the change in women's roles to a shift in systems of cultural representation. Under the absolute monarchy of the Old Regime, political culture was represented by the personalized iconic imagery of the father/king. This imagery gave way in bourgeois thought to a more symbolic system of representation based on speech, writing, and the law. Landes traces this change through the art and writing of the period. Using the works of Rousseau and Montesquieu as examples of the passage to the bourgeois theory of the public sphere, she shows how such concepts as universal reason, law, and nature were rooted in an ideologically sanctioned order of gender difference and separate public and private spheres. In the second part of the book, Landes discusses the discourses on women's rights and on women in society authored by Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Gouges, Tristan, and Comte within the context of these new definitions of the public sphere. Focusing on the period after the execution of the king, she asks who got to be included as "the People" when men and women demanded that liberal and republican principles be carried to their logical conclusion. She examines women's roles in the revolutionary process and relates the birth of modern feminism to the silencing of the politically influential women of the Old Regime court and salon and to women's expulsion from public participation during and after the Revolution.

Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795

Author : Darline Gay Levy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252008559
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 written by Darline Gay Levy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 years ago, the women of revolutionary Paris were demanding legal equality in marriage; educational opportunities for girls; and public instruction, licensing, and support for midwives. This title presents sixty documents which focuses on these and other socioeconomic struggles by women and their impact on the French Revolutionary era.

Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism

Author : Lisa Beckstrand
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641927
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism by : Lisa Beckstrand

Download or read book Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism written by Lisa Beckstrand and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women writers of the period: Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland. At a time when politicians were molding public policy concerning life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and constituting criteria for citizenship, increasing numbers of women in Paris were clamoring for rights. New medical and philosophical theories redefining female nature were trotted out to justify women's continued exclusion from full political participation. Such theories focused on the female body as the locus of women's intellectual inadequacies and promulgated the idea that women who acted outside of the confines of their physiological nature were considered desensitized and unfeminine. "Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism" aims to uncover the work of those women who challenged prevailing views of female nature, sought social reforms, and were deemed 'deviant' for their writing and/or activism during the French Revolution."--Jacket.

Rebel Daughters

Author : Sara E. Melzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281804
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Daughters written by Sara E. Melzer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271040134
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship

Author : Marquis de Condorcet
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 152879110X
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship written by Marquis de Condorcet and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” is a 1789 essay by French philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743–1794), more commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician and philosopher who espoused equal rights people of all genders and races, a liberal economy, free public instruction, and the importance of a constitutional government. Said to have been the very embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Condorcet died in prison as a result of his attempting to escape French Revolutionary authorities. Within this essay, he argues that, according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, rights are universal; and if that is indeed true, then they should apply to all adults—women included. A fascinating example of early feminist literature, “On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship” will greatly appeal to those with an interest in the history of feminism and its most notable proponents. Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Women in France Since 1789

Author : Susan Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317381
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Women in France Since 1789 written by Susan Foley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling study traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present. Susan K. Foley surveys the patterns of women's experiences in the socially-segregated society of the early nineteenth century, and then traces the evolution of their lifestyles to the turn of the twenty-first century, when many of the earlier social distinctions had disappeared. Focusing on women's contested place within the political nation, Women in France since 1789 examines: - The on-going strength of notions of sexual difference - Recurrent debates over gender - The anxiety created by women's perceived departure from ideals of womanhood - Major controversies over matters such as reproductive rights, significant cultural changes, and women's often under-estimated political roles By addressing and exploring these key issues, Foley demonstrates women's efforts over two centuries to create a place in society on their own terms.

The Rights of Woman

Author : Olympe de Gouges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Rights of Woman written by Olympe de Gouges and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

France and Women, 1789-1914

Author : James McMillan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134589573
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book France and Women, 1789-1914 written by James McMillan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernisation and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s.

The Declaration of the Rights of Women

Author : Olympe de Gouges
Publisher : Ilex Press
ISBN 13 : 1781575932
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The Declaration of the Rights of Women written by Olympe de Gouges and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their time. Over one hundred and fifty years later, the key statements of her declaration were internationally endorsed by the United Nations in its Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which in turn went on to be legally recognized by nearly every country in the world. This volume presents both of these key texts along with enlightening and inspiring commentary from a host of powerful women, from Virginia Woolf to Hillary Clinton.

Surmounting the Barricades

Author : Carolyn J. Eichner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111104
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Surmounting the Barricades written by Carolyn J. Eichner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Carolyn J. Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, and religious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune era, how these ideologies emerged as a plurality of feminist socialisms within the revolution, and how these varied politics subsequently affected fin-de-siÃ ̈cle gender and class relations. She focuses on three distinctly dissimilar revolutionary women leaders who exemplify multiple competing and complementary feminist socialisms: Andre Leo, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Paule Mink. Leo theorized and educated through journalism and fiction, Dmitrieff organized institutional power for working-class women, and Mink agitated crowds to create an egalitarian socialist world. Each woman forged her own path to gender equality and social justice.

Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789

Author :
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479077
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789 written by and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fashion in the French Revolution

Author : Aileen Ribeiro
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fashion in the French Revolution written by Aileen Ribeiro and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the changes in dress during the French Revolution and links them with the rapidly shifting political climate.

The Other Enlightenment

Author : Carla Hesse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691114804
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book The Other Enlightenment written by Carla Hesse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study examines the way women used writing to create themselves as modern individuals in post-Revolutionary France.--From publisher description.

Daughters of 1968

Author : Lisa Greenwald
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207556
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of 1968 written by Lisa Greenwald and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of 1968 is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the workplace and laws governing everything from abortion to marriage. The May 1968 events—with their embrace of radical individualism and antiauthoritarianism—triggered a break from the past, and the women’s movement split into two strands. One became universalist and intensely activist, the other particularist and less activist, distancing itself from contemporary feminism. This theoretical debate manifested itself in battles between women and organizations on the streets and in the courts. The history of French feminism is the history of women’s claims to individualism and citizenship that had been granted their male counterparts, at least in principle, in 1789. Yet French women have more often donned the mantle of particularism, advancing their contributions as mothers to prove their worth as citizens, than they have thrown it off, claiming absolute equality. The few exceptions, such as Simone de Beauvoir or the 1970s activists, illustrate the diversity and tensions within French feminism, as France moved from a corporatist and tradition-minded country to one marked by individualism and modernity.