French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship

Renee Waldinger is professor of French and executive officer of the PhD Program in French at the graduate school of the City University of New York.Philip Dawson is professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York and Brooklyn College.Isser Woloch is professor of history, Columbia University. All three editors are well-published experts on French history and society.

• Preface by Renée WaldingerIntroduction by Philip DawsonToward New Conceptions of CitizenshipThe Evolution of the Citizen from the Ancien Régime to the Revolution by Pierre RétatCitoyens, Citoyennes: Cultural Regression and the Subversion of Female Citizenship in the French Revolution by Madelyn GutwirthCitizenship in Action 1789-1791The National Assembly and the Invention of Citizenship by Michael P. FitzsimmonsCitizenship and Political Alignment in the National Assembly by Harriet B. ApplewhiteResponses to Limitations of CitizenshipThe Citizen in Caricature: Past and Present by Antoine De BaecqueThe Citizen in the Theatre by Marvin C. CarlsonRevolutionary Democracy and the Elections by Patrice GueniffeyElectoral Behavior during the Constitutional Monarchy (1790-1791): A Community Interpretation by Melvin EdelsteinCitizenship and the Press in the French Revolution by Jeremy D. PopkinThe Right to Primary Education in the French Revolution from Theory to Practice by Isser WolochCitizenship and Military Service by Alan ForrestWomen's Revolutionary Citizenship in Action, 1791: Setting the Boundaries by Darline Gay LevyWork and Citizenship: Crafting Images of Revolutionary Builders, 1789-1791 by Allan PotofskyMarriage, Religion, and Moral Order: The Catholic Critique of Divorce during the Directory by Suzanne DesanAfterword by Lynn A. Hunt