ISBN:
9780520248168
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (475 p)
Series Statement:
Studies on the History of Society and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
DDC:
306.85/0944/09033
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. FREEDOM OF THE HEART: MEN AND WOMEN CRITIQUE MARRIAGE; 2. THE POLITICAL POWER OF LOVE: MARRIAGE, REGENERATION, AND CITIZENSHIP; 3. BROKEN BONDS: THE REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE OF DIVORCE; 4. "WAR BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS": EGALITARIAN INHERITANCE AND GENDER POLITICS; 5. NATURAL CHILDREN, ABANDONED MOTHERS, AND EMANCIPATED FATHERS: ILLEGITIMACY AND UNWED MOTHERHOOD; 6. WHAT MAKES A FATHER? ILLEGITIMACY AND PATERNITY FROM THE YEAR II TO THE CIVIL CODE
Description / Table of Contents:
7. RECONSTITUTING THE SOCIAL AFTER THE TERROR: THE BACKLASH AGAINST FAMILY INNOVATIONS8. THE GENESIS OF THE CIVIL CODE; CONCLUSION; Appendix I: Communes in the Calvados Studied for Cases of Divorce; Appendix II: Chronology of Revolutionary Family Laws and Decrees; Note on Archival Sources; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
