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Rebel Daughters : Women and the French Revolution

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

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Oxford University Press Inc
019507016X / 9780195070163
Paperback / softback
21/10/1993
United States
English
308 pages, halftones
153 x 229 mm, 465 grams