The family on trial in revolutionary France /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Desan, Suzanne, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 51.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Families > France > 18th century.
Families > Political aspects > France.
Domestic relations > France > History > 18th century.
Familles > France > 18e siècle.
Familles > Aspect politique > France.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Domestic relations.
Families.
Families > Political aspects.
Women.
Sociology & Social History.
Family & Marriage.
Social Sciences.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Women.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Freedom of the heart
  • The political power of love
  • Broken bonds
  • "War between brothers and sisters"
  • Natural children, abandoned mothers, and emancipated fathers
  • What makes a father?
  • Reconstituting the social after the terror
  • The genesis of the civil code.

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