Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution / / Olwen Hufton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hufton, Olwen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women - those in rural areas and those in Paris - to the revolution's aftermath.Women were denied citizenship in the new state, but they were not apolitical. In Paris, collective female activity promoted a controlled economy as women struggled to secure an adequate supply of bread at a reasonable price. Rural women engaged in collective confrontation to undermine government religious policy which was destroying the networks of traditional Catholic charity.Hufton examines the motivations of these two groups, the strategies they used to advance their respective causes, and the bitter misogyinistic legacy of the republican tradition which persisted into the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 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 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index