The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern

by Carla Hesse

Book Overview

The French Revolution created a new cultural world that freed women from the constraints of corporate privilege, aristocratic salons, and patriarchal censorship, even though it failed to grant them legal equality. Women burst into print in unprecedented numbers and became active participants in the great political, ethical, and aesthetic debates that gave birth to our understanding of the individual as a self-creating, self-determining agent. Carla...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691074720
• ISBN13: 9780691074726
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"