Liberty in Their Names

Sandrine Bergès is Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2013) and co-editor of The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (2018) and Women Philosophers on Autonomy (2018). She is the translator of Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy (2019).

• List of Illustrations Foreword Timeline of the French Revolution Glossary of People and Places 1. Women in the Revolution 2. The Women and the Prisons: A Walk-Through 18th-Century Paris 3. Awakening to Injustice: The Formative Years of Gouges, Roland and Grouchy 4. Making her own Way: Olympe de Gouges 5. Speaking for Herself: Marie-Jeanne Roland 6. Working Together: Sophie de Grouchy 7. The Women on the Other Side of the Channel 8. The American Dream: From Republican model to Asylum of Freedom 9. The Abolitionist Movement and the Revolution 10. Women in the City Epilogue: Writing out the Women: Sophie de Grouchy After the Terror A Revolutionary Bookshelf NotesBibliography Index

Shedding light on less-familiar philosophers and their influence, this book is well worth the read and accessible to anyone interested in issues during this time in history. A valuable resource for those interested in philosophy, history, women’s studies, and literature.