ISBN:
9781838607159
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9781838607135
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42092
Keywords:
Women revolutionaries History 18th century
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Women revolutionaries History 19th century
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Electronic books
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France History Revolution, 1789-1799
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Women
Abstract:
"Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit. At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period. These women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and some fought battles which still remain to be won or raised questions that are still unresolved. These are their stories."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Text -- Introduction -- Part One: Frantic 'Midst the Democratic Storm -- 1: The Furies of Hell 2: A Wicked Little Democrat -- 3: Such Mighty Rage Part Two: More Turbulent than the Men -- 1: Determined Enemies to Good Order -- 2: The Most Abandoned of Their Sex -- 3: Persistent Amazons Part Three: Monsters in Female Form -- 1: Beyond Expression Horrible -- 2: This Infatuated Family -- 3: The She-Champion of Impiety Part Four: Women Without Masters -- 1: Very Clever, Awfully Revolutionary -- 2: Petticoat Government Epilogue: An Ignorant Woman -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781838607159
URL:
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