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.

The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

History

Godineau, Dominique

Europe

University of California Press

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.

The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 26)

Streip, Katherine

Shomicider soi-même, se noyer le cur, sabréger les jours, autant d 
e mots pour dire le suicide en cette fin du XVIIIe siècle. Se supprime 
r est alors encore un crime et les morts peuvent même être jugés et pu 
nis. Mais dans cette société des Lumières qui prône le bonheur, élites 
et simples citoyens sinterrogent sur ce «dernier désespoir» qui jett 
e à bas des hommes et des femmes de tout âge et de toute condition. 
Rapports de police, lettres de suicidés ou chroniques redonnent vie à 
ces morts qui nous parlent dhonneur, de misère, damour ou de politiq 
ue. Et soffre ici le tableau émouvant de la sensibilité et de la soci 
abilité des Français, de la fin de lAncien Régime à lEmpire. 
Au sommaire: 
1: Le cadavre devant ses juges: La procédure; Les procès; Le suicide d 
épénalisé; Les tentatives. 2: Vue(s) densemble: Portrait de groupe; T 
emps et espace; Corde, fer, eau : des formes socialement diversifiées 
. 3: Les chemins du désespoir: Des ennuis matériels «Se soustraire au 
châtiment de la justice»; Le privé: peines damour et tensions familia 
les; Des souffrances physiques?; Ennui de vivre, «dégoût de la scène u 
niverselle», mélancolie: des maux doisifs?; Figures de la folie; De l 
a religion au bonheur. 4: Individus et société: Se préparer à mourir; 
Doubles suicides et mises en scène; Dernières lettres; Lentourage fac 
e au suicide. 5: Suicide et événement: Les crises de lAncien Régime; 
Le suicide pendant la Révolution.

S'abréger les jours: Le suicide en France au XVIIIe siècle

ARMAND COLIN

Citoyennes tricoteuses: Les femmes du peuple à Paris pendant la Révolution française (Collection "Femmes et révolution") (French Edition)

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