Eve's Proud Descendants

Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-century France

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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How could women in postrevolutionary France act politically when they lacked political rights, and how could they support an exclusively masculine republicanism? This is a study of four female authors who wrote women into politics and into republicanism by articulating a model of republican womanhood between the two poles of feminist equality and republican motherhood. These four writers were George Sand, Marie d Agoult, Hortense Allart, and Delphine Gay de Girardin. Each figure constructed herself as a republican woman, as a female with certain public capabilities, and as a model for other women. They also rewrote the republican script regarding family relations, positing egalitarian alternatives to the patriarchal family of male republicanism. Although ostensibly they did not challenge male exclusivity in the possession of political rights, they significantly undermined its foundation in the gendered separation of social spheres.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-01-01
Mått164 x 237 x 29 mm
Vikt585 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagStanford University Press
ISBN9780804737548

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1. Introduction; 2. Growing up female in postrevolutionary France; 3. The erotics of writing: affective life, literary beginnings and pseudonyms; 4. Cassandra, Diotima, Aspasia, and Cleopatra: challenging the bluestocking stereotype in literary culture; 5. Women writers as republicans in July monarchy political culture; 6. Republican women and republican families; 7. Writing and rewriting the revolution of 1848; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

'This study is wonderfully innovative, a marvel of what feminist scholarshipcan do. Whitney Walton's accomplishment is to show how a group of four distinguished nineteenth-century French women authors produced holistic political theory, not 'merely' a literary oeuvre. The comparison of these writers allows the author to highlight a variety of contentious aspects of French literaryand political culture during a formative period, and the four women, their lives, their thought, really come alive.' Karen Offen, Stanford University