Women's Words: Essay on French Singularity

by Mona Ozouf

In her controversial book Women's Words, Mona Ozouf argues that French feminism lacks the rancor and resentment of its counterparts in England and America and explains why this placid, even timid brand of feminism is uniquely French. Ozouf uses the woman's portrait, traditionally a male genre, to portray ten French women of letters whose lives span the period from the eve of the French Revolution to the resurgence of the feminist movement in the late...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226643336
• ISBN13: 9780226643335
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"