Eve's Proud Descendants

• 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