By: Dominique Godineau, Katherine Streip (Transcribed by)

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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.

"A compelling book-length narrative of women in the French Revolution. Sections on denunciation, the guillotine, and the nuances of political behavior are particularly fresh and intriguing."--Bonnie G. Smith, author of "Confessions of a Concierge

List of Illustrations
Preface: Marianne's Hands
Abbreviations
Parisian Life in the French Revolution
Passersby	p. 3
Family Relations of Women of the People	p. 17
Women at Work	p. 52
Aspiring Citizens
Birth of the Female Sansculottes Movement, 1789-1793	p. 97
Women as Guardians of the Nation	p. 119
Light and Shadows, Summer 1793	p. 135
Citizenship Denied, Autumn 1793	p. 158
The Search for Basic Necessities, January-July 1794	p. 175
Revolutionary Daily Life of Women of the People
Political Culture and Female Sociability	p. 197
Political Mentalite and Behavior of Women of the People	p. 221
11. At the Margins of the Revolution	p. 248
12. Sexual Difference and Equal Rights	p. 268
A Mass Women's Movement
From the Militant Woman to Crowds of Women, November 1794-March 1795	p. 295
Firebrands, April-May 1795	p. 316
"Bread and the Constitution"	p. 331
Women's Silence	p. 347
Conclusion	p. 365
Chronology of the Revolution	p. 369
Sections of Paris	p. 373
Portraits of Militant Women	p. 376
Index	p. 401
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ISBN: 9780520067196
ISBN-10: 0520067193
Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 415
Published: 16th February 1998
Dimensions (cm): 22.5 x 16.1  x 2.678
Weight (kg): 0.682