Women and the limits of citizenship in the French Revolution /Olwen H. Hufton.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)1992.
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 201 pages)
- Donald G. Creighton lectures ; 1989 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Chapter one. Women and Politics -- Chapter two. Poverty and Charity: Revolutionary Mythology and Real Women -- Chapter three. In Search of Counter-Revolutionary Women -- Chapter four. Epilogue. The Legacy: Myth and Memory.
Annotation Not a general history of women in the Revolution, but an examination of selected issues with a view not merely to proving that women were there and hence had a revolution as well, but that their responses transformed and modified the entire history of the period 1789-1815. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Incorporated, Portland, OR.
9781442683556 9780802058980
Women in public life--History--France--18th century. Women revolutionaries--History--France--18th century.