The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France: Volume 51

by Suzanne Desan and Suzanne M. Desan

Book Overview

In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520248163
• ISBN13: 9780520248168
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"