Hufton, Olwen H.,

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.

Women Social conditions History France


Electronic Books.

DC158 / .W664 1992