The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
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The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
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The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution

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During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior. Here, for the first time in English translation, Dominique Godineau offers an illuminating account of these female revolutionaries. As nurturing and tender as they are belligerent and contentious, these are not singular female heroines but the collective common women who struggled for bare subsistence by working in factories, in shops, on the streets, and on the home front while still finding time to participate in national assemblies, activist gatherings, and public demonstrations in their fight for the recognition of women as citizens within a burgeoning democracy. Relying on exhaustive research in historical archives, police accounts, and demographic resources at specific moments of the Revolutionary period, Godineau describes the private and public lives of these women within their precise political, social, historical, and gender-specific contexts. Her insightful and engaging observations shed new light on the importance of women as instigators, activists, militants, and decisive revolutionary individuals in the crafting and rechartering of their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Preface: Marianne's Hands
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1. PARISIAN LIFE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  6. 1. Passersby
  7. 2. Family Relations of Women of the People
  8. 3. Women at Work
  9. 2. ASPIRING CITIZENS
  10. 4. Birth of the Female Sansculottes Movement, 1789-1793
  11. 5. Women as Guardians of the Nation
  12. 6. Light and Shadows, Summer 1793
  13. 7. Citizenship Denied, Autumn 1793
  14. 8. The Search for Basic Necessities, January-July 1794
  15. 3. REVOLUTIONARY DAILY LIFE OF WOMEN OF THE PEOPLE
  16. 9. Political Culture and Female Sociability
  17. 10. Political Mentalité and Behavior of Women of the People
  18. 11. At the Margins of the Revolution
  19. 12. Sexual Difference and Equal Rights
  20. 4. A MASS WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
  21. 13. From the Militant Woman to Crowds of Women, November 1794-March 1795
  22. 14. Firebrands, April-May 1795
  23. 15. "Bread and the Constitution"
  24. 16. Women's Silence
  25. Conclusion
  26. Appendix 1: Chronology of the Revolution
  27. Appendix 2: Sections of Paris
  28. Appendix 3: Portraits of Militant Women
  29. Index