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The Women of Paris & Their French Revolution: 26 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) - Hardcover
During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior. Here, for the first time in English translation, Dominique Godineau offers an illuminating account of these female revolutionaries. As nurturing and tender as they are belligerent and contentious, these are not singular female heroines but the collective common women who struggled for bare subsistence by working in factories, in shops, on the streets, and on the home front while still finding time to participate in national assemblies, activist gatherings, and public demonstrations in their fight for the recognition of women as citizens within a burgeoning democracy. Relying on exhaustive research in historical archives, police accounts, and demographic resources at specific moments of the Revolutionary period, Godineau describes the private and public lives of these women within their precise political, social, historical, and gender-specific contexts. Her insightful and engaging observations shed new light on the importance of women as instigators, activists, militants, and decisive revolutionary individuals in the crafting and rechartering of their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic.
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"A compelling book-length narrative of women in the French Revolution. Sections on denunciation, the guillotine, and the nuances of political behavior are particularly fresh and intriguing."--Bonnie G. Smith, author of "Confessions of a Concierge
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This account of the female revolutionaries during the French Revolution describes their lives within political, social, historical and gender-specific contexts. It highlights the importance of these women in creating their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic.
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0520067185
- ISBN 13 9780520067189
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages438
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The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
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