Rebel Daughters Women and the French Revolution

by Melzer, Sara E.; Rabine, Leslie W.

• ISBN13: 9780195070163
• ISBN10: 019507016X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important andparadoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the maleleaders 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 thatwomen were banned from the political sphere, "woman" was transformed into anallegorical figure which became the very symbol of (masculine) Liberty andEquality. This volume analyzes how the revolutionary process constructed a newgender system at the foundation of modern liberal culture.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction	p. 3
Representing the Body Politic: the Paradox of Gender in the Graphic Politics of the French Revolution	p. 15
"Love and Patriotism": Gender and Politics in the Life and Work of Louvet De Couvrai	p. 38
Incorruptible Milk: Breast-Feeding and the French Revolution	p. 54
Women and Militant Citizenship in Revolutionary Paris	p. 79
"A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer": Olympe De Gouges Claims Rights for Women	p. 102
Outspoken Women and the Rightful Daughter of the Revolution: Madame De Staël's Considerations Sur La Révolution Française	p. 121
Triste Amérique: Atala and the Postrevolutionary Construction of Woman	p. 139
Being René, Buying Atala: Alienated Subjects and Decorative Objects in Postrevolutionary France	p. 157
Exotic Femininity and the Rights of Man: Paul Et Virginie and Atala, or the Revolution in Stasis	p. 178
The Engulfed Beloved: Representations of Dead and Dying Women in the Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Era	p. 198
"Equality" and "Difference" in Historical Perspective: a Comparative Examination of the Feminisms of French Revolutionaries and Utopian Socialists	p. 231
English Women Writers and the French Revolution	p. 255
Flora Tristan: Rebel Daughter of the Revolution	p. 273
Index	p. 289
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