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The family and the nation : gender and citizenship in revolutionary France, 1789-1830 /

The French Revolution transformed the nation's--and eventually the world's--thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heuer, Jennifer Ngaire, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: The family of the nation. New contracts of kinship and citizenship, 1789-1793
  • "Duty to the patrie above all:" the terror
  • Part II: Toward a nation of families: transitions in the late 1790s. Fathers and foreigners
  • Gender and emigration reconsidered
  • Part III: The Napoleonic solution and its limits. Tethering Cain's wife: the Napoleonic civil code
  • Looking backward: the consequences of civil death
  • Looking forward: women and the application of citizenship law
  • Immigration, marriage, and citizenship in the Restoration
  • Conclusion: reversals and lasting contradictions.