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Index
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
1: Introduction
I: Women and the Formation of Revolutionary Ideology
2: Representing the Body Politic: The Paradox of Gender in the Graphic Politics of the French Revolution
3: “Love and Patriotism”: Gender and Politics in the Life and Work of Louvet de Couvrai
4: Incorruptible Milk: Breast-feeding and the French Revolution
“L’homme de la nature”; or, Let Them Eat Grass
“La France Républicaine”; or, Let Them Eat Signs
II: The Other Revolution: Women as Actors in the Revolutionary Period
5: Women and Militant Citizenship in Revolutionary Paris
6: “A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer”: Olympe de Gouges Claims Rights for Women
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II
III
7: Outspoken Women and the Rightful Daughter of the Revolution: Madame de Staël’s Considérations sur la Révolution Française
Father/Trust
Mother/Talk
Step-brother/Police
Daughter/Writer
III: Constructing the New Gender System in Postrevolutionary Culture
8: Tiriste Amérique: Atala and the Postrevolutionary Construction of Woman
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II
III
IV
9: Being René, Buying Atala: Alienated Subjects and Decorative Objects in Postrevolutionary France
Back to the Future
Gendered Readers/Gendered Texts
Atala Seen and Sold: Sex, Savages, and Sensibility
Identifying with Rané: Aristocracy, Alienation, and Authorship
Being Atala Buying René
10: Exotic Femininity and the Rights of Man: Paul et Virginie and Atala, or the Revolution in Stasis
Historical Preliminaries: Revolution and the Celebration of Mother Nature
Exoticism and Femininity: Theoretical Reflections on (A Certain Kind of) Marginality
Women and the Revolution: The Supplement of History
From the Discourse of the Naturalist to the Discourse of Nature: The Family Tale of the Universal Discourse
When the Exotic Becomes the Familiar: A Voyage into the “Uncanny”
The Universal Tale of Feminine “Virtue”
11: The Engulfed Beloved: Representations of Dead and Dying Women in the Art and Literature of the Revolutionary Era
Works Cited
IV: The Birth of Modern Feminism in the Revolution and Its Aftermath
12: “Equality” and “Difference” in Historical Perspective: A Comparative Examination of the Feminisms of French Revolutionaries and Utopian Socialists
Equality versus Difference in “Second Wave” Feminism
Revolutionary Feminism
Utopian Socialist Feminism
Deconstructing the “Equality-versus-Difference” Debate
13: English Women Writers and the French Revolution
14: Flora Tristan: Rebel Daughter of the Revolution
INDEX
NOTES
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