During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned fo

In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the

This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders o

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