The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 26)
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ISBN-10: 0-520-06719-3
ISBN-13: 9780520067196
Publisher: University of California Press
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Year: February 16, 1998
Edition: 1
Size: 15.24 x 22.35 x 3.05cm
Number of pages: 65535
Weight: 590gr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0-520-06719-3
ISBN-13: 9780520067196
Publisher: University of California Press
Country:
Year: February 16, 1998
Edition: 1
Size: 15.24 x 22.35 x 3.05cm
Number of pages: 65535
Weight: 590gr
Binding: Paperback
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Dominique Godineau
University of California Press; 1998
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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.
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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An Astounding Resource 
For anyone researching the French Revolution this book would be an invaluable resource. Quotes, statistics and geographical interpretation of the riots, all are included in the realistic, sometimes tantalizing look at the struggles of Parisian women and their roles in the French Revolution. Not just a fleshed out version of a history texts after-thought, as happens so many times with books about the women or minorities of history – this book gives us the real forces behind some of the major events of the revolution – forces that include the demands of disenfranchised women eager to take part in the new Sovereignty of the people. The tons of research done by Godineau shows not only in the immense bibliography but also in the completeness of the themes discussed in the book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the French Revolution or the history of Women.
For anyone researching the French Revolution this book would be an invaluable resource. Quotes, statistics and geographical interpretation of the riots, all are included in the realistic, sometimes tantalizing look at the struggles of Parisian women and their roles in the French Revolution. Not just a fleshed out version of a history texts after-thought, as happens so many times with books about the women or minorities of history – this book gives us the real forces behind some of the major events of the revolution – forces that include the demands of disenfranchised women eager to take part in the new Sovereignty of the people. The tons of research done by Godineau shows not only in the immense bibliography but also in the completeness of the themes discussed in the book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the French Revolution or the history of Women.
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- 1789-1799
- 18th century
- European history – c 1750 to c 1900
- Europe – France
- France
- History
- History-Europe – France
- History – Europe – General
- History – General History
- History – Specific Subjects
- History – World
- Paris
- Paris (France)
- Revolutions & coups
- Social conditions
- Social history
- Social Science
- Social Science – Women's Studies
- Women
- Women in public life
- Women's studies
- Women's Studies – General
- Women's Studies – History
- Working class women
- World history
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