Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution

by Leslie W. Rabine and Noelle Crooks

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019507016X
• ISBN13: 9780195070163
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"