The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
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 ter as they are belligerent and contentious, these are not singular female heroines but the collective common women who struggled for bare...
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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.
List of IllustrationsPreface: Marianne's HandsAbbreviationsIParisian Life in the French Revolution1Passersby32Family Relations of Women of the People173Women at Work52IIAspiring Citizens4Birth of the Female Sansculottes Movement, 1789-1793975Women as Guardians of the Nation1196Light and Shadows, Summer 17931357Citizenship Denied, Autumn 17931588The Search for Basic Necessities, January-July 1794175IIIRevolutionary Daily Life of Women of the People9Political Culture and Female Sociability19710Political Mentalite and Behavior of Women of the People22111. At the Margins of the Revolution24812. Sexual Difference and Equal Rights268IVA Mass Women's Movement13From the Militant Woman to Crowds of Women, November 1794-March 179529514Firebrands, April-May 179531615"Bread and the Constitution"33116Women's Silence347Conclusion365App. 1Chronology of the Revolution369App. 2Sections of Paris373App. 3Portraits of Militant Women376Index401
